John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies (born May 5, 1944, Ammanford, United Kingdom), aged 82, is a Welsh actor.
John Rhys-Davies’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Rhys-Davies’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth 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
In 1944, 66,616 American boys and 180 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 540th 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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 · 4 · 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 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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
Study took John Rhys-Davies to Truro School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
John Rhys-Davies was 20 when the work began in 1964.
On Wikipedia the categories read British Eurosceptics, Welsh male voice actors and People from Ammanford.
Henry Cavill (1983) and Carlos Alcaraz (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Truro School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and University of East Anglia
- Working from
- 1964
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
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 cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What John needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 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 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means John does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 Rhys-Davies
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ammanford 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 Ammanford that night
Computed for 51.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ammanford at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Ammanford sits at 51.8°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ammanford at all: they sit past the −38.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -6° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
John Rhys-Davies's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 5, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
John Rhys-Davies was born on May 5, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
John Rhys-Davies's birth date, May 5, 1944, 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 Rhys-Davies' date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, 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 Rhys-Davies combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Libra 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
stableUranussextilePluto1.0° orb
John’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.6° to 3.5° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 5.1° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.2° to 6.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.4° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 3.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 3.4° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 9°22′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 13°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 14°12′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 3°42′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron square Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.8°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
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.
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
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John’s cards
Computed from May 5, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16455 (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 Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Rhys-Davies 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 Rhys-Davies.
Quick answers about John Rhys-Davies’s chart
- How old is John Rhys-Davies?
- John Rhys-Davies is 82 years old, born May 5, 1944 in Ammanford, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is John Rhys-Davies?
- John Rhys-Davies is a Taurus: born May 5, 1944, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is John Rhys-Davies's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 5, 1944 birth.
- What is John Rhys-Davies's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Rhys-Davies's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Rhys-Davies's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Rhys-Davies's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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