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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
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
In 1920, 56,913 American boys and 281 girls were registered John — 1st among boys and 395th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
1
Soul Urge · independence
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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
The Pulitzer Prize for Music came in 1959, when John La Montaine was 39.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Oak Park, Illinois, Musicians from Oak Park, Illinois and Pupils of Bernard Rogers.
Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (1959) and Arts and Letters Award in Music (1962)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
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.
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 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.
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 La Montaine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oak Park 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 Oak Park that night
Computed for 41.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Oak Park was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 84.3° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Oak Park sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oak Park at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 7% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oak Park, United States
The death is recorded at Hollywood, Los Angeles in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John La Montaine: 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
58 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · Grand trine · Mars retrograde
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.
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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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Aquarius 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
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
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto2.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.4° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.7° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 23°33′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 23°00′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on March 17
- Nat King Cole1919
- Kurt Russell1951
- Hozier1990
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Other Evergreen Explorers
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
John’s cards
Computed from March 17, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15097917 (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.
The same John La Montaine at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was John La Montaine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was John La Montaine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
