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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with John
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.
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
John ranked 1st among boys and 397th among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 51,852 American boys and 253 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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
John Kendrew took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962, at 45.
Clifton College and Trinity College shaped the training.
On the family side, John Kendrew was born to Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà.
Wikipedia's editors put John Kendrew under Presidents of St John's College, Oxford, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II and People educated at Clifton College.
Jessica Chastain (1977) and Steve Ballmer (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Clifton College, Trinity College and Dragon School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1962), Royal Medal (1965) and William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1988)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
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. 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 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.
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 Kendrew
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oxford 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 Oxford that night
Computed for 51.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Oxford at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 51.8°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 Oxford at all: they sit past the −38.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oxford, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Kendrew: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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
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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.3° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.5° to 5.4° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.5° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.2° to 5.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 10°46′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°54′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°56′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°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 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°
John’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.6°
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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
Computed from March 24, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232295 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Kendrew 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 Kendrew.
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.
- 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 was John Kendrew's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Kendrew's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
