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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for John Hersey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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.
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
John’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.4° to 2.9° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
John’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
John’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 7.4° orb
John’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.6° orb
John’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°57′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has John absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresPisces 1°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: John is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 25°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. John is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°10′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has John needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has John carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: John is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Hersey, 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 June 17, 1914, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for John Hersey, 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 Q535812, 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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Hersey at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
- 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 time was John Hersey 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 Hersey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the June 17, 1914 birth date.
- What was John Hersey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 17, 1914 birth date.
- 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.
