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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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.
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~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for John Steffler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
John’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
John’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb
John’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunsquarePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrinePluto5.5° to 6.7° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.3° orb
John’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironScorpio 14°47′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has John carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 28°02′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: John looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°60′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. John is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 3°34′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. John is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has John at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
John’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: John is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in John’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Steffler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from November 13, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for John Steffler, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6258973, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same John Steffler at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was John Steffler born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is John Steffler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 13, 1947 birth date.
- What is John Steffler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 13, 1947 birth date.
- 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.
