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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with John
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
In 1933, 46,224 American boys and 226 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 430th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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 · 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 record
What sets John apart
Mario Kempes (1954) and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (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 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. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Hopfield
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 35% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Taurus 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
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
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 2°29′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 19°06′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 28°31′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°45′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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- John L. Hall1934
- Burton Richter1931
- Albert Fert1938
Born in United States
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on July 15
- Mario Kempes1954
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943
- Wayde van Niekerk1992
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Other Tidal Diplomats
- Michael OndaatjeCanadian novelist and poet (born 1943)
- Richard ErnstSwiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
- Wendell Meredith StanleyAmerican biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Emil Theodor Kochersurgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Walter Rudolf HessSwiss physiologist
- André Frédéric CournandFrench physiologist
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
Computed from July 15, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
2 · Diplomat☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q391237 (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 Arthur Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Hopfield at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Hopfield.
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.
- 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 is John Hopfield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Hopfield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
