Frank Peters Jr.
Frank Peters Jr. (born October 19, 1930, Springfield, United States; died 2007), was an American journalist. Peters's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Frank Peters Jr.’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank Peters Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1930, 12,535 American boys and 88 girls were registered Frank — 13th among boys and 746th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · 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 1930, 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 Frank apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism came in 1972, when Frank Peters Jr. was 42.
The schooling ran through Drury University and Iowa State University.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.
On Wikipedia the categories read Drury University alumni, Iowa State University alumni and Writers from Springfield, Missouri.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) and John Lithgow (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Drury University and Iowa State University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1972)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Frank is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank 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 Frank and watch them fall for you again.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Frank creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Frank is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Frank does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Frank Peters Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Springfield 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 Springfield that night
Computed for 37.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Springfield was Scheat, in Pegasus, 79.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
Springfield sits at 37.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Springfield at all: they sit past the −52.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Springfield, United States
The death is recorded at St. Anthony's Medical Center, Missouri in 2007.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank Peters Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Frank Peters Jr.'s Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 19, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Frank Peters Jr. was born on October 19, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Frank Peters Jr.'s birth date, October 19, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Peters Jr.'s date-only chart is Mercury opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frank Peters Jr. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Frank’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.7° to 1.2° orb
Frank’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.0° orb
Frank’s growth and depths act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.4° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.3° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.3° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°28′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 13°30′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 6°07′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 17°34′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.4°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Frank’s cards
Computed from October 19, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19839467 (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.
The same Frank Peters Jr. at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank Peters Jr..
Quick answers about Frank Peters Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank Peters Jr.?
- Frank Peters Jr. was a Libra: born October 19, 1930, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank Peters Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 19, 1930 birth.
- What was Frank Peters Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank Peters Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank Peters Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank Peters Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
