John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod (born September 6, 1876, Clunie, United Kingdom; died 1935), was a Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin. Macleod's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
John James Rickard Macleod’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John James Rickard Macleod’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 earliest American count for John is 1880, 4 years on: 1st among boys and 229th among girls, 9,655 American boys and 46 girls.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets John apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 1923, when John James Rickard Macleod was 47.
The schooling ran through University of Aberdeen School of Medicine and University of Aberdeen.
John James Rickard Macleod lies at Allenvale Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read Scottish inventors, People from Perth and Kinross and Academic staff of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
Idris Elba (1972) and Max George (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Aberdeen School of Medicine and University of Aberdeen
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923), Fellow of the Royal Society (1923) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1932)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Buried at
- Allenvale Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of John is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. John creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: John is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means John channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 James Rickard Macleod
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clunie 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 Clunie that night
Computed for 56.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Clunie was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 78.1° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 56.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −33.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Clunie, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Aberdeen, Aberdeen City in 1935.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John James Rickard Macleod: 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
51 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
John James Rickard Macleod's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatFinds the shortcut every time.
John James Rickard Macleod was born on September 6, 1876, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
John James Rickard Macleod's birth date, September 6, 1876, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John James Rickard Macleod's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- John James Rickard Macleod combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Aries 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
John’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto2.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.2° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 1.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMarsorb from 7.9° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 29°50′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°37′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°27′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°30′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.6°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.4°
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John’s cards
Computed from September 6, 1876. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232024 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about John James Rickard Macleod’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John James Rickard Macleod?
- John James Rickard Macleod was a Virgo: born September 6, 1876, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was John James Rickard Macleod's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1876 birth.
- What was John James Rickard Macleod's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was John James Rickard Macleod's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John James Rickard Macleod's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John James Rickard Macleod's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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