Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish (born May 11, 1924, Fowey, United Kingdom; died 2021), was an English physicist and radio astronomer. Hewish's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Holweck Prize and Hughes Medal.
Antony Hewish’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Antony
Antony Hewish’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Antony in the U.S.?
#1622
US rank in 2025
~10,701
Americans share it since 1900
2007
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1924, Antony came 1,780th, carried by 20 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Antony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Antony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, 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 Antony apart
Antony Hewish took the Eddington Medal in 1969, at 45.
Gonville and Caius College and King's College shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Antony Hewish: People from Fowey, Radio astronomers and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Salvador Dalí (1904) and Richard Feynman (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Gonville and Caius College, King's College and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1974), Holweck Prize (1974) and Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1971)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Antony, according to the stars
Core essence
Antony is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Antony is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Antony needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Antony needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Antony wants to be loved
Antony 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. Antony gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Antony creates
How Antony makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Antony creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Antony 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Antony is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Antony goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Antony's birth date. Working below.
Where Antony sits
Six lines
Antony’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Antony Hewish
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fowey on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Fowey that night
Computed for 50.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over Fowey at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
At 50.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Fowey at all: they sit past the −39.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 48% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 1° down.
How unusual Antony's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Antony Hewish's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 11, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Antony Hewish was born on May 11, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Antony Hewish's birth date, May 11, 1924, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Antony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Antony Hewish's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Antony Hewish combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Antony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Leo 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Antony’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Antony’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.2° to 2.8° orb
Antony’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.5° to 6.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Antony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 22°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°44′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Libra 18°33′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 25°37′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.1°
Antony’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Antony’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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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Antony’s cards
Computed from May 11, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Antony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189990 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Antony Hewish 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 Antony Hewish.
Quick answers about Antony Hewish’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Antony Hewish?
- Antony Hewish was a Taurus: born May 11, 1924, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Antony Hewish's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 11, 1924 birth.
- What was Antony Hewish's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Antony Hewish's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Antony Hewish's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Antony Hewish's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
