John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe (born November 18, 1939, New York City, United States), aged 86, is an American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. O'Keefe's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University.
John O'Keefe’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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John O'Keefe’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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
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
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
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 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 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 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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. John is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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John O'Keefe in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
John O'Keefe's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
John O'Keefe was born on November 18, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
John O'Keefe's birth date, November 18, 1939, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John O'Keefe's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
- John O'Keefe combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John O'Keefe, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° 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.
Placements
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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.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.1° orb
John’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 4.0° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.3° to 4.0° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
John’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.9° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
John’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 19°49′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. John is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has John caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosVirgo 29°17′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. John is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. John is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. John is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.4°
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. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: John is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
Yod onto Saturn · Sun, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John O'Keefe, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as John
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from November 18, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John O'Keefe, 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 Q1701279, 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.
Portrait by Per Henning/NTNU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John O'Keefe at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about John O'Keefe’s chart
- How old is John O'Keefe?
- John O'Keefe is 86 years old, born November 18, 1939 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John O'Keefe?
- John O'Keefe is a Scorpio: born November 18, 1939, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is John O'Keefe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1939 birth.
- What time was John O'Keefe 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 is John O'Keefe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 18, 1939 birth date.
- What is John O'Keefe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 18, 1939 birth date.
- Where is John O'Keefe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John O'Keefe's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
