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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
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Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Anthony Burgess, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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.
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
Anthony’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
Anthony’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.6° orb
Anthony’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto4.3° to 5.1° orb
Anthony’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Anthony absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 16°42′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Anthony caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 23°13′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Anthony is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Anthony is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Anthony is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 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°
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°).
Anthony’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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Anthony is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Anthony’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anthony Burgess, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Anthony’s cards
Every card is computed from February 25, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Anthony Burgess, 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
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217619, 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.
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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was Anthony Burgess 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 was Anthony Burgess's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 25, 1917 birth date.
- What was Anthony Burgess's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 25, 1917 birth date.
- 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.
