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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with John
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
The SSA recorded 51,025 American boys and 228 girls named John in 1939: 3rd among boys and 445th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Feldberg Foundation Prize came in 2001, when John O'Keefe was 62.
John O'Keefe was taught at City College of New York and Regis High School.
Wikipedia files John O'Keefe under Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Members of the Royal Irish Academy and British neuroscientists.
Margaret Atwood shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- City College of New York, Regis High School and McGill University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2014), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2013) and Grawemeyer Awards (2006)
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
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. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 O'Keefe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 51% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde · 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.
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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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.9° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 19°49′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 29°17′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.4°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.1°
Born the same day as John
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 too, 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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John’s cards
Computed from November 18, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1701279 (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 Per Henning/NTNU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John O'Keefe at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 is John O'Keefe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is John O'Keefe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
