John Steffler
John Steffler (born November 13, 1947, Toronto, Canada), aged 78, is a Canadian poet. Steffler has served as Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Steffler's honours include Atlantic Poetry Prize and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
John Steffler’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with John
John Steffler’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 1947, 88,324 American boys and 203 girls were registered John — 3rd among boys and 600th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
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
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets John apart
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) 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 does not do surface. The core of John is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from John is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with John and watch them fall for you again.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. John is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Steffler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Toronto at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Toronto sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Toronto at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
John Steffler's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
John Steffler was born on November 13, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
John Steffler's birth date, November 13, 1947, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Steffler's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Steffler combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or 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
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.7° orb
John’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.6° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.5° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 14°47′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 28°02′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°60′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 3°34′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 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 Mars 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.4°
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- Dominick ArgentoAmerican composer
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on November 13
- Whoopi Goldberg1955
- Lando Norris1999
- Jimmy Kimmel1967
- Paul Graham1964
- Lynsey Addario1973
- Art Malik1952
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- George PickensAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Akeem Davis-GaitherAmerican football outside linebacker
- Sauce GardnerAmerican football player (born 2001)
Other Scorpio Pig charts
- Susanna ClarkeBritish author (1959-)
- Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer (born 1959)
- Eugene OrmandyHungarian-American conductor and violinist
- Joe WalshAmerican rock musician
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Joshua LederbergAmerican molecular biologist
- Russell A. HulseAmerican astronomer
- Le Duc ThoVietnamese diplomat
- Michael SmithCanadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Morgan CoxAmerican football player (born 1986)
- Kenneth GainwellAmerican football running back
- Jermaine JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
John’s cards
Computed from November 13, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6258973 (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 Steffler at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Steffler.
Quick answers about John Steffler’s chart
- How old is John Steffler?
- John Steffler is 78 years old, born November 13, 1947 in Toronto, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is John Steffler?
- John Steffler is a Scorpio: born November 13, 1947, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is John Steffler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1947 birth.
- What is John Steffler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Steffler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Steffler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Steffler's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
