John Hersey
John Hersey (born June 17, 1914, Tianjin, China; died 1993), was an American journalist, novelist, professor. Hersey is best remembered for Hiroshima. Hersey's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and Rome Prize.
John Hersey’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with John
John Hersey’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
John ranked 1st among boys and 408th among girls in 1914, the year of this birth, with 37,947 American boys and 169 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets John apart
KJ Apa (1997) and Barry Manilow (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. John gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. John builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: John is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. John is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means John fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to John Hersey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tianjin on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Tianjin that night
Computed for 39.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tianjin was Izar, in Boötes, 78.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 32% lit at last quarter.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · No Earth planets · A leaning bowl
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
John Hersey's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 17, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
John Hersey was born on June 17, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
John Hersey's birth date, June 17, 1914, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Hersey's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Hersey combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars0.1° to 0.5° orb
John’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 7.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 6.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°57′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 1°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 25°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°10′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Venus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.7°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.9°
- Eros square Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.8°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Pluto
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
More people like John
Other screenwriters
- Anthony Dawson1916
- Jerome Weidman1913
- Carl Foreman1914
- John Cheever1912
- Olivia de Havilland1916
- Red Skelton1913
Born in People's Republic of China
- Joseph LauHong Kong businessman
- Gao XingjianChinese novelist and playwright (1940- )
- Morris ChangTaiwanese businessman and electrical engineer (born 1931)
- Mo YanChinese novelist and screenwriter
- Woo Kwong Ching PeterHong Kong politician and businessman; Former chairman; Founding patron, Wheelock; Project WeCan
- Charles K. KaoHong Kong-British-American physicist
More charts like John’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Trevon MoehrigAmerican football safety
- Kenny PickettAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Alex BachmanAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Tiger years
- Mecole HardmanAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Danny FujikawaAmerican actor, voice actor and musician
- Delilah Belle HamlinAmerican actress and TV personality (born 1998)
Also born on June 17
- KJ Apa1997
- Barry Manilow1943
- Venus Williams1980
- Elena Rybakina1999
- Jurriën Timber2001
- Odessa A'zion2000
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jesse JamesAmerican entrepreneur and television personality
- Taylor KinneyAmerican actor and model (born 1981)
- Stacy KeiblerAmerican professional wrestler, dancer, and model (born 1979)
Other Gemini Tiger charts
- Viktor GyökeresSwedish footballer (born 1998)
- DaveBritish rapper
- Markelle FultzAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Matyáš NovákCzech musician
Other Evergreen Healers
- Marcus DavenportAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Tyrod TaylorAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Kyle HintonAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Myles GarrettAmerican football player (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Holger RuneDanish tennis player
- G-EazyAmerican rapper
- Kali UchisAmerican singer and songwriter
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
John’s cards
Computed from June 17, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q535812 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Hersey at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Hersey.
Quick answers about John Hersey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Hersey?
- John Hersey was a Gemini: born June 17, 1914, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was John Hersey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1914 birth.
- What was John Hersey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Hersey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Hersey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Hersey's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
