Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (born February 25, 1917, Harpurhey, United Kingdom; died 1993), was an English writer and composer. Burgess is best remembered for A Clockwork Orange. Burgess's honours include Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Christopher Award and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
Anthony Burgess’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Anthony
Anthony Burgess’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Anthony in the U.S.?
#46
US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,027 American boys and 19 girls named Anthony in 1917: 38th among boys and 1,851st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anthony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Anthony apart
George Harrison (1943) and Néstor Kirchner (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Anthony, according to the stars
Core essence
Anthony feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Anthony is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Anthony wants to be loved
Anthony wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Anthony be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Anthony creates
How Anthony makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Anthony creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Anthony is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Anthony 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Anthony slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.
Where Anthony sits
Six lines
Anthony’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harpurhey 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 Harpurhey that night
Computed for 53.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Harpurhey at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 12.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
How unusual Anthony's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Anthony Burgess at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Anthony Burgess's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 25, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Anthony Burgess was born on February 25, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Anthony Burgess's birth date, February 25, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Anthony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anthony Burgess' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Anthony Burgess combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Anthony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Anthony’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.1° to 0.3° orb
Anthony’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb
Anthony’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.3° to 5.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 16°42′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 23°13′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.9°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.2°
- Eros square Venus 2.0°
- Eros square Uranus 2.6°
Anthony’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Anthony’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.0°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on February 25
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Anthony’s cards
Computed from February 25, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217619 (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 Open Media Ltd., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anthony Burgess 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 Anthony Burgess.
Quick answers about Anthony Burgess’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anthony Burgess?
- Anthony Burgess was a Pisces: born February 25, 1917, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Anthony Burgess's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 25, 1917 birth.
- What was Anthony Burgess's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anthony Burgess's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anthony Burgess's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anthony Burgess's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
