John Megna
John Megna (born November 9, 1952, Queens, United States; died 1995), was an American actor.
John Megna’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Megna’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
In 1952, 83,140 American boys and 197 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 630th 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 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
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Megna was taught at Holy Cross High School and Cornell University.
Cause of death is recorded as death from AIDS-related complications.
On Wikipedia the categories read Educators from California, Holy Cross High School (Flushing) alumni and People from Ozone Park, Queens.
Sherrod Brown and Jack Szostak shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Holy Cross High School and Cornell University
- Working from
- 1959
- Cause of death
- death from AIDS-related complications
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John does not do surface. The core of John is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from John is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, John needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What John needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with John and watch them fall for you again.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. John creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: John is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means John does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Megna
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Queens at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Queens sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 46% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Queens, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1995.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Megna: 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
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
John Megna's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
John Megna was born on November 9, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
John Megna's birth date, November 9, 1952, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Megna's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- John Megna combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
John’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.0° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableVenustrinePluto0.1° to 1.3° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.3° to 0.9° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 15°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°37′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneAn 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.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Born the same day as John
4 other people here were born on November 9, 1952, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Queens sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like John
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- Beverly D'Angelo1951
- Michael Bolton1953
- Christine Baranski1952
- Ciarán Hinds1953
- Beth Henley1952
Born in United States
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- Jim MorinPulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
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More charts like John’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Parker PoseyAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Meg RyanAmerican actress (born 1961)
- Piper PeraboAmerican actress
Born in Dragon years
- Timothy WeahAmerican soccer player
- Brenden AaronsonAmerican soccer player
- Noah OkaforSwiss association football player
Also born on November 9
- Carl Sagan1934
- Hedy Lamarr1914
- Luiz Felipe Scolari1948
- Eric Dane1972
- Nikki Blonsky1988
- Sherrod Brown1952
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Torri HuskeAmerican swimmer
- Bryce YoungAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Arlo ParksBritish singer
Other Scorpio Dragon charts
- Michael CunninghamAmerican novelist and screenwriter
- Michael HiltzikPulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Rodrigo AbdArgentine photojournalist
- Anne SextonAmerican poet
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Rosanna PansinoAmerican YouTuber
- Margot RobbieAustralian actress
- Nina DobrevBulgarian-Canadian actress
- Taylor MomsenAmerican actress, singer and model
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Nahuel MolinaArgentine association football player
- Cedric IttenSwiss association football player
- Ao TanakaJapanese association football player
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
John’s cards
Computed from November 9, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1101802 (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 Megna 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 Megna.
Quick answers about John Megna’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Megna?
- John Megna was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1952, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was John Megna's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1952 birth.
- What was John Megna's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Megna's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Megna's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Megna's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
