John P. Marquand
John P. Marquand (born November 10, 1893, Wilmington, United States; died 1960), was an American writer. Marquand's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
John P. Marquand’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with John
John P. Marquand’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal 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
John ranked 1st among boys and 343rd among girls in 1893, the year of this birth, with 8,049 American boys and 61 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
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
The record
What sets John apart
John P. Marquand took the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938, at 45.
The classrooms behind this chart: Newburyport High School and Harvard College.
The grave is at Massachusetts.
The family line: born to Philip Marquand and married Adelaide Ferry Hooker.
Wikipedia's editors put John P. Marquand under National Guard (United States) officers, Writers from Newburyport, Massachusetts and American spy fiction writers.
Brittany Murphy (1977) and João Félix (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Newburyport High School, Harvard College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1938)
- Buried at
- Massachusetts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 25
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 is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What John needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. John creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 P. Marquand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilmington 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 Wilmington that night
Computed for 39.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wilmington was Mirach, in Andromeda, 80.1° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Wilmington at all: they sit past the −50.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wilmington, United States
The death is recorded at Newburyport, Essex County in 1960.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John P. Marquand: 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
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 unaspected planets
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 →John P. Marquand at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
John P. Marquand's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
John P. Marquand was born on November 10, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
John P. Marquand's birth date, November 10, 1893, 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 P. Marquand's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- John P. Marquand combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Sagittarius 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.1° orb
John’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 6.4° orb
John’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.0° orb
John’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.6° to 2.3° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.6° to 6.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus6.6° to 7.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 18°17′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°59′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 6°01′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.9°
- Eros opposition Venus 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
More people like John
Other screenwriters
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings1896
- Jack Warner1892
- Paul Green1894
- Katherine Anne Porter1890
- Robert E. Sherwood1896
- Elmer Rice1892
Born in United States
- Westbrook PeglerAmerican investigative journalist
- Hattie McDanielAmerican actress
- Edward Adelbert DoisyAmerican biochemist
- James Phinney Baxter IIIAmerican historian
- Martha GrahamAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Douglas MooreAmerican composer
More charts like John’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Rick AtkinsonAmerican author
- Homer BigartAmerican journalist
- Maggie HabermanAmerican journalist (born 1973)
Born in Snake years
- Pierce BrosnanIrish actor
- Aamir KhanIndian actor
- Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisFirst Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
Also born on November 10
- Brittany Murphy1977
- João Félix1999
- Ellen Pompeo1969
- Mackenzie Foy2000
- Zoey Deutch1994
- Kiernan Shipka1999
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Mark WiensFood vlogger and restaurateur
- Tristan TateAmerican-British Internet personality and kickboxer
- Keith RaboisAmerican businessman
Other Scorpio Snake charts
- He XiaopengChinese entrepreneur
- Tom GolisanoAmerican businessman
- Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor
- Indira GandhiPrime Minister of India
Other Gilded Guardians
- Josh GiddeyAustralian basketball player (born 2002)
- Nae'Qwan TomlinAmerican basketball player
- Sean PedullaAmerican basketball player
- Bam AdebayoAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ángel Di MaríaArgentine footballer
- Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist
- Lisa GerrardAustralian musician, singer and composer
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
John’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1893. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1190579 (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 P. Marquand 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 P. Marquand.
Quick answers about John P. Marquand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John P. Marquand?
- John P. Marquand was a Scorpio: born November 10, 1893, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was John P. Marquand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1893 birth.
- What was John P. Marquand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was John P. Marquand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John P. Marquand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John P. Marquand's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
