John Kendrew
John Kendrew (born March 24, 1917, Oxford, United Kingdom; died 1997), was an English biochemist and crystallographer. Kendrew's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
John Kendrew’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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John Kendrew’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet
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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of John is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. John creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: John is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. John is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; John slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
John Kendrew's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
John Kendrew was born on March 24, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
John Kendrew's birth date, March 24, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Kendrew's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- John Kendrew combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Kendrew, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Aries 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquarePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.5° to 1.8° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.6° orb
John’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 5.1° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
John’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.3° to 5.2° orb
John’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.5° to 5.4° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.5° to 4.3° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.5° orb
John’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.2° to 5.0° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has John absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 10°46′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has John caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°54′ (moves 0.08° 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.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°56′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. John is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. John is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.1°
- Eros trine Sun 2.4°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.6°
- Eros trine Mars 2.6°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.8°
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. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
6 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: John is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Kendrew, 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 March 24, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Kendrew, 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 Q232295, 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.
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The same John Kendrew 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 Kendrew’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Kendrew?
- John Kendrew was an Aries: born March 24, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was John Kendrew's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1917 birth.
- What time was John Kendrew 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 was John Kendrew's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 24, 1917 birth date.
- What was John Kendrew's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 24, 1917 birth date.
- Where was John Kendrew's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Kendrew's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
