George Perle
George Perle (born May 6, 1915, Bayonne, United States; died 2009), was an American composer. Perle is best remembered for Wind Quintet No. 4. Perle's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, MacArthur Fellows Program and Guggenheim Fellowship.
George Perle’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with George
George Perle’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
In 1915, 22,307 American boys and 139 girls were registered George — 6th among boys and 538th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
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 1915, 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 George apart
Wind Quintet No. 4. That is the work the name is attached to.
George Perle was taught at American Conservatory of Music and DePaul University.
George Perle lies at Calverton National Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read Pupils of Ernst Krenek, Berg scholars and Members of the Socialist Workers Party (United States).
Orson Welles and Theodore H. White shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Wind Quintet No. 4
- Educated at
- American Conservatory of Music, DePaul University and New York University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1966), MacArthur Fellows Program (1986) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1986)
- Buried at
- Calverton National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George 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 George 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, 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 boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. George creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: George is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. George 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means George gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 George Perle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bayonne 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 Bayonne that night
Computed for 40.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Bayonne at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Bayonne sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bayonne at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 41% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bayonne, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Perle: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 2 planets 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 →George Perle at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
George Perle's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 6, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
George Perle was born on May 6, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
George Perle's birth date, May 6, 1915, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Perle's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- George Perle combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Aquarius 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
George’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 5.5° orb
George’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto1.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.5° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.3° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.3° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°36′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 21°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 25°23′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 26°09′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.5°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in George’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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
Born the same day as George
2 other people here were born on May 6, 1915, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Bayonne sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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George’s cards
Computed from May 6, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201359 (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 George Perle 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 George Perle.
Quick answers about George Perle’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Perle?
- George Perle was a Taurus: born May 6, 1915, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was George Perle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1915 birth.
- What was George Perle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Perle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Perle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Perle's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
