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John Hurt

John Hurt (born January 22, 1940, Chesterfield, United Kingdom; died 2017), was a British actor. Hurt's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Knight Bachelor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

John Hurt’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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John Hurt’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

The SSA recorded 54,786 American boys and 208 girls named John in 1940: 3rd among boys and 463rd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What John’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.

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

1 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets John apart

The British Academy Television Award for Best Actor came in 1976, when John Hurt was 36.

John Hurt was taught at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Saint Martin's School of Art.

John Hurt was 27 when the work began in 1967.

Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.

John Hurt was married Annette Robertson.

Wikipedia files John Hurt under Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art, Deaths from pancreatic cancer in England and BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

Jim Hoagland and John Menard, Jr. shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Saint Martin's School of Art and St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1981), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1979) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1979)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1967
Cause of death
pancreatic cancer
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
66

What the chart says

John, according to the stars

Core essence

John is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of John is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How John wants to be loved

John wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with John, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means John gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
John

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
John

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
John

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
John

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
John

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
John

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to John Hurt

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chesterfield on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

John’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 32.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chesterfield that night

Computed for 53.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Chesterfield at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

From 53.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chesterfield at all: they sit past the −36.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Chesterfield, United Kingdom
Lived in
Chesterfield

Wikidata records Chesterfield as John Hurt's home, Chesterfield among them.

The death is recorded at Cromer, North Norfolk in 2017.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Hurt: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual John's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn

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.

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John Hurt at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

John Hurt's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 22, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

John Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

John Hurt's birth date, January 22, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in John’s chart

John’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.5° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.9° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 6° orbSun in Aquarius · 1°20′☉1°Moon in Gemini · 27°54′☽27°Mercury in Capricorn · 25°12′☿25°Venus in Pisces · 4°48′♀4°Mars in Aries · 12°36′♂12°Jupiter in Aries · 4°16′♃4°Saturn in Aries · 25°00′♄25°Uranus in Taurus · 17°59′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Virgo · 25°21′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 1°47′ · retrograde♇℞1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.0° orb

    John’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb

    John’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    John’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.8° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.8° to 7.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 16°05′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 19°36′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 23°14′ (moves 0.73° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°25′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.1°

John’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

Configurations in John’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.7°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°

Born the same day as John

2 other people here were born on January 22, 1940, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chesterfield, at 53.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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John’s cards

Computed from January 22, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200405 (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 Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same John Hurt at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Hurt.

Quick answers about John Hurt’s chart

What zodiac sign was John Hurt?
John Hurt was an Aquarius: born January 22, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was John Hurt's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 22, 1940 birth.
What was John Hurt's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was John Hurt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was John Hurt's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was John Hurt's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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