John Huston
John Huston (born August 5, 1906, Nevada, United States; died 1987), was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Huston is best remembered for Key Largo, The Cardinal and Myra Breckinridge. Huston's honours include Golden Lion, Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
John Huston’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with John
John Huston’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 1906, 8,264 American boys and 43 girls were registered John — 1st among boys and 531st 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
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 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets John apart
Neil Armstrong (1930) and Janet McTeer (1961) 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. John creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: John is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Huston
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nevada 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 Nevada that night
Computed for 37.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Nevada at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 11.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Nevada sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nevada at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Leo
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
John Huston's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
John Huston was born on August 5, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
John Huston's birth date, August 5, 1906, 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 Huston's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- John Huston combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
John’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.2° to 0.8° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
John’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.8° to 4.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.7° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.4° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 6.6° to 20.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 9°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 6°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 10°47′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 13°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.5°
- Eros opposition Saturn 3.0°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.4°
John’s family here
One relative of John Huston also has a chart on AsterNym.
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John’s cards
Computed from August 5, 1906. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51575 (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.
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The same John Huston 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 Huston.
Quick answers about John Huston’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Huston?
- John Huston was a Leo: born August 5, 1906, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was John Huston's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1906 birth.
- How tall was John Huston?
- John Huston was 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was John Huston's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Huston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Huston's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Huston's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
