Patrick White
Patrick White (born May 28, 1912, London, United Kingdom; died 1990), was an English-born Australian writer. White is best remembered for Voss. White's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Companion of the Order of Australia and Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Patrick White’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
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Patrick White’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Patrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Patrick is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Patrick needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Patrick feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Patrick needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Patrick wants to be loved
Patrick wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Patrick is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Patrick creates
How Patrick makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Patrick builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Patrick 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Patrick is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Patrick leads without needing to do it alone.
Computed from Patrick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Patrick White's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Patrick White was born on May 28, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Patrick White's birth date, May 28, 1912, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Patrick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Patrick White's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Patrick White combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Patrick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Patrick White, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Scorpio 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.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb
Patrick’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.9° to 3.5° orb
Patrick’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
Patrick’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Patrick’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars3.5° to 4.2° orb
Patrick’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
Patrick’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.6° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.8° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 3.4° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 5.0° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileSaturnorb from 4.6° to 5.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Patrick’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 11°01′ (moves 0.02° 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 Patrick absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 9°00′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Patrick is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 14°16′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Patrick is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 18°46′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Patrick needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Patrick is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 square Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.0°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros square Mercury 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.8°
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°).
Patrick’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Patrick is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Patrick’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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Patrick White, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Patrick
Walter Moreira Sales was born on May 28, 1912 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Patrick’s cards
Every card is computed from May 28, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Patrick White, 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
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129187, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Patrick White 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Patrick White.
Quick answers about Patrick White’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Patrick White?
- Patrick White was a Gemini: born May 28, 1912, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- What was Patrick White's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1912 birth.
- What time was Patrick White 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 Patrick White's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 28, 1912 birth date.
- What was Patrick White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 28, 1912 birth date.
- Where was Patrick White's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Patrick White's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
