John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (born March 13, 1899, Middletown, United States; died 1980), was an American physicist. Vleck's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Lorentz Medal and Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
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What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of John is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, John runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What John needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let John be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: John is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. John is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means John does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 13, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was born on March 13, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's birth date, March 13, 1899, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
John’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb
John’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.2° to 3.1° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
John’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineMars1.9° to 2.7° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.0° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto4.7° to 5.8° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.7° orb
John’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 12°57′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has John building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 10°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. John is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosTaurus 8°33′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has John wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 16°37′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. John is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. John is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Venus 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres square Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
John’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: John is read as tuned to what is not said.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in John’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from March 13, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193655, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by JH_van_Vleck_and_HBG_Casimir,_1974.jpg: Unknown derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck?
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was a Pisces: born March 13, 1899, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 13, 1899 birth.
- What time was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the March 13, 1899 birth date.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 13, 1899 birth date.
- Where was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
