John La Montaine
John La Montaine (born March 17, 1920, Oak Park, United States; died 2013), was an American musician. Montaine's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
John La Montaine’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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John La Montaine’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of John is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, John needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What John needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let John be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means John runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
John La Montaine's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
John La Montaine was born on March 17, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
John La Montaine's birth date, March 17, 1920, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John La Montaine's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- John La Montaine combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John La Montaine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Aquarius 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.
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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.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° orb
John’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
John’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.5° orb
John’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrinePluto2.6° orb
John’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto3.4° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
John’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb
John’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
John’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.7° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 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.
⚷ ChironAries 5°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: John may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 23°33′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: John looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAries 23°00′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. John is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has John needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has John leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: John is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Kite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John La Montaine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from March 17, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John La Montaine, 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 Q15097917, 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.
The same John La Montaine at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by John La Montaine.
Quick answers about John La Montaine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John La Montaine?
- John La Montaine was a Pisces: born March 17, 1920, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was John La Montaine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1920 birth.
- What time was John La Montaine 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 La Montaine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 17, 1920 birth date.
- What was John La Montaine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 17, 1920 birth date.
- Where was John La Montaine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John La Montaine's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
