John Hopfield
John Hopfield (born July 15, 1933, Chicago, United States), aged 93, is an American scientist (born 1933). Hopfield's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Benjamin Franklin Medal and Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
John Hopfield’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rooster, with 
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John Hopfield’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
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 feels the room before entering it. The core of John is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for John, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, John is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What John needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore John openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. John creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: John is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
John Hopfield's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 15, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
John Hopfield was born on July 15, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
John Hopfield's birth date, July 15, 1933, 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 Hopfield's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- John Hopfield combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Hopfield, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Taurus 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.
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.5° orb
John’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.3° orb
John’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.6° to 2.7° orb
John’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
John’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto4.3° orb
John’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.3° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 2.8° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 2°29′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has John turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 19°06′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: John looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 28°31′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has John attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°45′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has John carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of John that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
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. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: John is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Mars 0.1°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Hopfield, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
John’s cards
Every card is computed from July 15, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Hopfield, 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 Q391237, 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 Arthur Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Hopfield at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about John Hopfield’s chart
- How old is John Hopfield?
- John Hopfield is 93 years old, born July 15, 1933 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Hopfield?
- John Hopfield is a Cancer: born July 15, 1933, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster.
- What is John Hopfield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 15, 1933 birth.
- What time was John Hopfield 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 is John Hopfield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 15, 1933 birth date.
- What is John Hopfield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 15, 1933 birth date.
- Where is John Hopfield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Hopfield's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
