John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941, Cotulla, United States), aged 85, is an American historian of the Cold War (b. 1941). Gaddis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Fulbright Scholarship and Bancroft Prize.
John Lewis Gaddis’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with John
John Lewis Gaddis’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 1941, 57,520 American boys and 221 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 472nd 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Bancroft Prize came in 1973, when John Lewis Gaddis was 32.
Study took John Lewis Gaddis to University of Texas at Austin.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Cotulla, Texas, Naval War College faculty and Writers from Texas.
Marvin Gaye (1939) and Alberto Fernández (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize (1973), Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2012) and American History Book Prize (2012)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
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 processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What John needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. John is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Lewis Gaddis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cotulla 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 Cotulla that night
Computed for 28.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cotulla at 9 p.m. that evening: Asellus Australis of Cancer, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Cotulla sits at 28.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Acrux cannot be seen from Cotulla at all: they sit past the −61.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 32% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cotulla, United States
- Lives in
- Greater New Haven
Wikidata records Greater New Haven as John Lewis Gaddis's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Lewis Gaddis: 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
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
John Lewis Gaddis's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 2, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
John Lewis Gaddis was born on April 2, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
John Lewis Gaddis's birth date, April 2, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Lewis Gaddis' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Lewis Gaddis combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Gemini 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 6.1° orb
John’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.5° to 2.2° orb
John’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.6° to 6.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus6.1° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°16′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°02′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 24°23′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres square Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.7°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.0°
More people like John
Other historians
- Michael Kammen1936
- David M. Kennedy1941
- David Hackett Fischer1935
- Mike Wallace1942
- William S. McFeely1930
- Eric Foner1943
Born in United States
- Jane Gentry VanceAmerican poet and college professor from Kentucky
- Ellen GoodmanAmerican journalist and writer
- Nick NolteAmerican actor (born 1941)
- Michael Stuart BrownAmerican geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Stephen AlbertAmerican composer
- Ryan O'NealAmerican actor
More charts like John’s
Fellow Aries suns
- George H. HitchingsNobel Prize-winning American physician
- Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
Born in Snake years
- Neil El AynaouiMorrocan footballer
- Toni FrukCroatian association football player (born 2001)
- Max ArfstenAmerican soccer player
Also born on April 2
- Marvin Gaye1939
- Alberto Fernández1959
- Michael Fassbender1977
- Pedro Pascal1975
- Mollie O'Callaghan2004
- Bobby Bones1980
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Trey LylesCanadian basketball player (born 1995)
- T. J. McConnellAmerican basketball player
- Johnny FurphyAustralian basketball player (born 2004)
Other Aries Snake charts
- Max von SydowSwedish-French actor
- Bruno GanzSwiss actor
- Sergio BustricItalian actor (1953-)
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Richard Mofe DamijoNigerian politician and actor
- Jourdan DunnEnglish model and actress
- Fred AgainBritish singer-songwriter and record producer
- Ted SarandosAmerican businessman
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Ben Stokescricketer (born 1991)
- Shaheen AfridiPakistani cricketer
- Ryan MooreBritish jockey
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
John’s cards
Computed from April 2, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24070 (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 U.S. Naval War College, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Lewis Gaddis at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Lewis Gaddis.
Quick answers about John Lewis Gaddis’s chart
- How old is John Lewis Gaddis?
- John Lewis Gaddis is 85 years old, born April 2, 1941 in Cotulla, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Lewis Gaddis?
- John Lewis Gaddis is an Aries: born April 2, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is John Lewis Gaddis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 2, 1941 birth.
- What is John Lewis Gaddis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Lewis Gaddis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Lewis Gaddis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Lewis Gaddis's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
