John L. Gaunt
John L. Gaunt (born June 4, 1924, Syracuse, United States; died 2007), was an American photographer. Gaunt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
John L. Gaunt’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with John
John L. Gaunt’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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
John ranked 2nd among boys and 347th among girls in 1924, the year of this birth, with 59,052 American boys and 382 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.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets John apart
Angelina Jolie (1975) and Russell Brand (1975) 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, John is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What John needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
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 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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. John is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. John goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 L. Gaunt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Syracuse 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 Syracuse that night
Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Syracuse at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
John L. Gaunt's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
John L. Gaunt was born on June 4, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
John L. Gaunt's birth date, June 4, 1924, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John L. Gaunt's date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- John L. Gaunt combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Cancer 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
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.9° to 2.0° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
John’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysquareMars1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.0° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 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.
⚷ ChironAries 23°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 21°13′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 21°08′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°08′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros trine Mars 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryAn 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
More people like John
Other photographers
- Moneta Sleet, Jr.1926
- Joe Rosenthal1911
- Yasushi Nagao1930
- Eudora Welty1909
- Malcolm Browne1931
- Fred Zinnemann1907
Born in United States
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- John StrohmeyerAmerican journalist
- Marlon BrandoAmerican actor
- Paul ConradAmerican political cartoonist and sculptor
- Addie L. WyattAmerican labor leader
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- Derek Stingley Jr.American football defensive back
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Born in Rat years
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- Steven ChuAmerican physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
- Elizabeth BlackburnAustralian-American biological researcher
Also born on June 4
- Angelina Jolie1975
- Russell Brand1975
- Noah Wyle1971
- Central Cee1998
- Evan Spiegel1990
- Henna Virkkunen1972
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Dana CarveyAmerican comedian
- Ambyr ChildersAmerican actress
- Duane ChapmanAmerican bounty hunter
Other Gemini Rat charts
- Kenneth G. WilsonNobel prize winning US physicist
- Julius AxelrodAmerican biochemist
- James BlackScottish doctor and pharmacologist
- Torsten Nils WieselSwedish neuroscientist
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Tila TequilaAmerican television and social media personality
- Lea ThompsonAmerican actress
- James Van Der BeekAmerican actor
- Amy WinehouseEnglish singer-songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Brie BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Nikki BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Ben Higginsreality television star
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
John’s cards
Computed from June 4, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6243575 (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 Los Angeles Times - Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John L. Gaunt 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 L. Gaunt.
Quick answers about John L. Gaunt’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John L. Gaunt?
- John L. Gaunt was a Gemini: born June 4, 1924, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was John L. Gaunt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1924 birth.
- What was John L. Gaunt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was John L. Gaunt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John L. Gaunt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John L. Gaunt's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
