John Paul
John Paul (born May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland; died 2005), was Pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author. Paul held office as Archbishop of Kraków and Vice-President of the Polish Episcopal Conference. Paul's honours include Order of Bethlehem, Gold Olympic Order and Knight of St. Sylvester.
John Paul’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with John
John Paul’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, 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 1920, John came 1st among boys and 395th among girls, carried by 56,913 American boys and 281 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
1
Soul Urge · independence
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
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
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets John apart
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) 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 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.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once John is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. John is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Paul
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wadowice 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 Wadowice that night
Computed for 49.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wadowice at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 49.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · Mars 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 SunComfort first, then everything else.
John Paul's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
John Paul was born on May 18, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
John Paul's birth date, May 18, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Paul's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Paul 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 21° to 6° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.5° orb
John’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableUranustrinePluto0.8° orb
John’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.4° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.2° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 4.3° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 9°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 18°18′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 14°32′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°25′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.3°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.5°
More people like John
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Chow Yun-fat1955
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- Travis Hunter2003
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- Theodor Loos1883
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Jenny McCarthyAmerican actress, model, activist, television personality and author
- Cindy McCaincommunity organizer
- Matt LauerAmerican journalist (1957-)
Other Taurus Monkey charts
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Other Radiant Scholars
- Dmitri MendeleevRussian chemist
- Alexander Graham BellCanadian-American scientist inventor of telephone
- Usain BoltJamaican sprinter
- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Chad JohnsonAmerican gridiron football player (born 1978)
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- Steve KazeeAmerican actor (born 1975)
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 May 18, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q989 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Paul at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Paul.
Quick answers about John Paul’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Paul?
- John Paul was a Taurus: born May 18, 1920, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was John Paul's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1920 birth.
- What was John Paul's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Paul's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Paul's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Paul's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
