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George Bowering

George Bowering (born December 1, 1935, Penticton, Canada), aged 90, is a Canadian writer. Bowering has served as Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate and professor emeritus. Bowering's honours include Officer of the Order of Canada and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.

George Bowering’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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George Bowering’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name George in the U.S.?

#126

US rank in 2025

~1,497,260

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

George, according to the stars

Core essence

George is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of George is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, George needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What George needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How George wants to be loved

George wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. George gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How George creates

How George makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. George creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: George is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. George is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means George does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from George's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where George sits

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Intimate circleWide network
George

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
George

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
George

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to George Bowering

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Penticton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

George’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 55.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

George Bowering's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

George Bowering was born on December 1, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

George Bowering's birth date, December 1, 1935, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for George Bowering, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 8°43′☉8°Moon in Aquarius · 19°31′☽19°Mercury in Sagittarius · 4°00′☿3°Venus in Libra · 22°32′♀22°Mars in Capricorn · 25°51′♂25°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 5°03′♃5°Saturn in Pisces · 4°00′♄4°Uranus in Taurus · 2°12′ · retrograde♅℞2°Neptune in Virgo · 16°41′♆16°Pluto in Cancer · 27°11′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb

    George’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.7° orb

    George’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.7° orb

    George’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb

    George’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° orb

    George’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareMars3.2° to 3.5° orb

    George’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb

    George’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.1° to 5.2° orb

    George’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb

    George’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.4° to 5.0° orb

    George’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.0° orb

    George’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.9° to 6.7° orb

    George’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

George’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 13°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has George turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 29°10′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. George is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 1°01′ (moves 0.49° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. George is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 0°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. George is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has George exacting with themselves first.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.1°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.8°
  • Eros square Mercury 3.0°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 3.0°

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°).

George’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: George is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 George’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mars, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George Bowering, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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George’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Fool

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The Gilded Explorer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for George Bowering, 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

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1239280, 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.

The same George Bowering at Wikipedia and georgebowering.com.

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 George Bowering’s chart

How old is George Bowering?
George Bowering is 90 years old, born December 1, 1935 in Penticton, Canada.
What zodiac sign is George Bowering?
George Bowering is a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1935, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
What is George Bowering's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1935 birth.
What time was George Bowering 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 is George Bowering's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 1, 1935 birth date.
What is George Bowering's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 1, 1935 birth date.
Where is George Bowering's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is George Bowering's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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