John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931, Oak Park, United States; died 2019), was an American physicist. Schrieffer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Comstock Prize in Physics.
John Robert Schrieffer’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
John Robert Schrieffer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 1931, John came 3rd among boys and 356th among girls, carried by 48,423 American boys and 325 girls.
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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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 Robert Schrieffer took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966, at 35.
Eustis High School and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shaped the training.
The grave is at Greenwood Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Robert Schrieffer: People convicted of vehicular homicide, Physicists of the University of Birmingham and Prisoners and detainees of California.
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Eustis High School, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1972), National Medal of Science (1983) and Comstock Prize in Physics (1968)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Greenwood Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
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 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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means John fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Robert Schrieffer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oak Park 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 Oak Park that night
Computed for 41.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Oak Park at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oak Park, United States
The death is recorded at Tallahassee, Leon County in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Robert Schrieffer: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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 Robert Schrieffer at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
John Robert Schrieffer's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
John Robert Schrieffer was born on May 31, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
John Robert Schrieffer's birth date, May 31, 1931, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Robert Schrieffer's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- John Robert Schrieffer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° 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
stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 7.7° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.7° to 0.9° orb
John’s growth and depths act as one.
stableUranussquarePluto1.2° orb
John’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMarstrineUranus6.4° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.6° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 20°09′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°59′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 1°53′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°09′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 22°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.5°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.2°
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
John’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153201 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Robert Schrieffer.
Quick answers about John Robert Schrieffer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Robert Schrieffer?
- John Robert Schrieffer was a Gemini: born May 31, 1931, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was John Robert Schrieffer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1931 birth.
- What was John Robert Schrieffer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Robert Schrieffer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Robert Schrieffer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Robert Schrieffer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
