John Toland
John Toland (born June 29, 1912, La Crosse, United States; died 2004), was an American writer. Toland's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
John Toland’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with John
John Toland’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
John ranked 1st among boys and 446th among girls in 1912, the year of this birth, with 24,588 American boys and 112 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
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
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1912, 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 Toland took the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1971, at 59.
Yale School of Drama and Williams College shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia.
Wikipedia's editors put John Toland under Historians of Nazism, Writers from La Crosse, Wisconsin and American historians of World War II.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900) and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale School of Drama and Williams College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1971)
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John feels the room before entering it. The core of John is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for John, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, John is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What John needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. John gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. John is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Toland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above La Crosse 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 La Crosse that night
Computed for 43.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over La Crosse at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −46.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from La Crosse on any night.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- La Crosse, United States
The death is recorded at Danbury, Western Connecticut Planning Region in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Toland: 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
52 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
John Toland's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 29, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
John Toland was born on June 29, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
John Toland's birth date, June 29, 1912, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Toland's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Toland combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Capricorn 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 7.6° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 2.4° orb
John’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.6° to 1.9° orb
John’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.5° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 4.9° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 6.8° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 7.3° to 19.3° depending on birth time
possibleJupiteroppositionSaturnorb from 7.9° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 11°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 21°43′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 13°06′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 24°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
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Also born on June 29
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Bill MaherAmerican stand-up comedian and television host
- Madison BeerAmerican singer
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Other Cancer Rat charts
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- Derek BarnettAmerican football player
Other Radiant Diplomats
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- Tracy K. SmithAmerican poet (born 1972)
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- Robert SoutheyEnglish romantic poet
Famous people with Life Path 3
- David CarradineAmerican actor
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
John’s cards
Computed from June 29, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
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 Q1246921 (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 General Services Administration. National Archives and Records Service. Office of Educational Programs. Education Division, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Toland at Wikipedia 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 Toland.
Quick answers about John Toland’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Toland?
- John Toland was a Cancer: born June 29, 1912, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was John Toland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 29, 1912 birth.
- What was John Toland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Toland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Toland'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 was John Toland's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
