John Patrick
John Patrick (born May 17, 1905, Louisville, United States; died 1995), was an American playwright and screenwriter. Patrick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.
John Patrick’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Patrick’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire 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
Of the names registered in 1905, John came 1st among boys and 521st among girls, carried by 8,059 American boys and 43 girls.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
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 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
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 1905, 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 Patrick took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1954, at 49.
Cause of death is recorded as asphyxia.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Patrick: Suicides by asphyxiation, Dramatists and playwrights from Kentucky and Writers from Louisville, Kentucky.
Edward Jenner (1749) and Enya (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1954) and Tony Award for Best Play (1954)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Story
- Cause of death
- asphyxia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of John is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, John feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What John needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. John creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means John runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Patrick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Louisville 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 Louisville that night
Computed for 38.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Louisville at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.7° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 38.3°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 Louisville at all: they sit past the −51.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Louisville, United States
The death is recorded at Delray Beach, Palm Beach County in 1995.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Patrick: 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
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
John Patrick's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 17, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
John Patrick was born on May 17, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
John Patrick's birth date, May 17, 1905, 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 Patrick's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, 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 Patrick combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.6° to 1.3° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.7° to 2.3° orb
John’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 10°40′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°33′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 28°08′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.2°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.3°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
John’s cards
Computed from May 17, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4347021 (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 Patrick 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 Patrick.
Quick answers about John Patrick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Patrick?
- John Patrick was a Taurus: born May 17, 1905, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was John Patrick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1905 birth.
- What was John Patrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Patrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Patrick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Patrick's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
