John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950, The Bronx, United States), aged 76, is an American writer. Shanley's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.
John Patrick Shanley’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Patrick Shanley’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 1950, 79,412 American boys and 180 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 638th 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
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
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets John apart
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) and Gwen Stefani (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of John is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. John has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Patrick Shanley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
The Moon, 53% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
John Patrick Shanley's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 3, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
John Patrick Shanley was born on October 3, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
John Patrick Shanley's birth date, October 3, 1950, 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 Shanley's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- John Patrick Shanley combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb
John’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.4° to 7.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.4° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.3° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.2° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 17°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°12′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 26°19′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 22°15′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.0°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 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 quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.4°
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- Richard Ben Cramer1950
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Born in United States
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- Ed HarrisAmerican actor and director (born 1950)
- Richard Ben CramerAmerican journalist
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More charts like John’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Jens Christian SkouDanish chemist
- Rainer WeissAmerican physicist
- David BakerAmerican biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Born in Tiger years
- Nicholas HammondAmerican actor
- Liv UllmannNorwegian actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)
- Craig FergusonBritish actor
Also born on October 3
- Zlatan Ibrahimović1981
- Gwen Stefani1969
- Lena Headey1973
- Fred1983
- Noah Schnapp2004
- ASAP Rocky1988
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Ross Lee FinneyAmerican composer
- Richard PowersAmerican novelist (born 1957)
- Richard EllmannAmerican writer and literary critic
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Raymond Davis Jr.American scientist
- Thomas Hunt MorganAmerican biologist
- Jody WilliamsAmerican teacher and aid worker
- Kurt WüthrichSwiss chemist (born 1938)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Brandi GlanvilleAmerican television personality
- Anwar JibawiAmerican Internet personality
- Lady GagaAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress
- Mike PenceVice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Famous people with Life Path 1
- John James Rickard MacleodNobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
- Charles G. Dawesvice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
- Theodore William RichardsUnited States chemist
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
John’s cards
Computed from October 3, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1349456 (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 Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Patrick Shanley at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Patrick Shanley.
Quick answers about John Patrick Shanley’s chart
- How old is John Patrick Shanley?
- John Patrick Shanley is 76 years old, born October 3, 1950 in The Bronx, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Patrick Shanley?
- John Patrick Shanley is a Libra: born October 3, 1950, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is John Patrick Shanley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 3, 1950 birth.
- What is John Patrick Shanley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Patrick Shanley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Patrick Shanley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Patrick Shanley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
