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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Patrick
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.
How common is the name Patrick in the U.S.?
#235
US rank in 2025
~689,424
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1912, Patrick came 145th, carried by 430 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Patrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1912, 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 Patrick apart
What keeps Patrick White in print: Voss.
The classrooms behind this chart: Cheltenham College and The King's School, Tudor House.
The working life starts in 1935, at 23.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Patrick White: Australian male short story writers, Adaminaby and British anti-Vietnam War activists.
The same date carries Walter Moreira Sales. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Voss
- Educated at
- Cheltenham College, The King's School, Tudor House and King's College
- Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award (1961), Nobel Prize in Literature (1973) and Australian of the Year (1973)
- Nominated for
- Booker Prize
- Working from
- 1935
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 92
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. Working below.
Where Patrick sits
Six lines
Patrick’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 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.
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 Patrick White
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 86.3° up.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Sydney, New South Wales in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Patrick White: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Patrick's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · 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
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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Scorpio 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
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
stableVenussextileMars3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 11°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°00′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 14°16′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 18°46′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Patrick’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Patrick’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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Patrick
Walter Moreira Sales was born on May 28, 1912 too, 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. At 51.5°N, London keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. 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
Computed from May 28, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129187 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Patrick White at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Patrick White's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Patrick White's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
