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Percival Everett

Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956, Fort Gordon, United States), aged 69, is an American writer. Everett is best known for Dr. No, James and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Everett's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Time 100 and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Percival Everett’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Percival Everett’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#1536

US rank in 2025

~1,466

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Percival’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Percival, according to the stars

Core essence

Percival is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Percival is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Percival is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Percival needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Percival wants to be loved

Percival 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 Percival and watch them fall for you again.

How Percival creates

How Percival makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Percival creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Percival is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Percival 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 Percival leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Percival 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 Percival's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Percival sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Percival

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Percival

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

PrivateExpressive
Percival

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Percival

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Percival

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Percival

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Percival Everett's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 22, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Percival Everett was born on December 22, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Percival Everett's birth date, December 22, 1956, 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 Percival’s chart

Percival’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Percival Everett, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbSun in Capricorn · 0°51′☉0°Moon in Virgo · 8°28′☽8°Mercury in Capricorn · 20°27′☿20°Venus in Sagittarius · 3°37′♀3°Mars in Aries · 8°30′♂8°Jupiter in Libra · 0°51′♃0°Saturn in Sagittarius · 8°17′♄8°Uranus in Leo · 6°17′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°06′♆2°Pluto in Virgo · 0°21′ · retrograde♇℞0°

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°
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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.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Percival’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Percival’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Percival’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb

    Percival’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Percival’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.9° to 2.5° orb

    Percival’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.9° to 2.1° orb

    Percival’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.0° to 3.3° orb

    Percival’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.2° to 3.4° orb

    Percival’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.9° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 5.2° orb

    Percival’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.2° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Percival’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 8°57′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Percival making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresAries 8°54′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Percival looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°48′ (moves 0.58° 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. Percival is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 12°34′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Percival is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Percival at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.

  • Ceres conjunction Mars 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.5°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°

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°).

Percival’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Percival is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Percival’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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°

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

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Percival’s cards

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The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Percival Everett, 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

Percival’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3375158, 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 Phibeatrice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Percival Everett at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Percival Everett’s chart

How old is Percival Everett?
Percival Everett is 69 years old, born December 22, 1956 in Fort Gordon, United States.
What zodiac sign is Percival Everett?
Percival Everett is a Capricorn: born December 22, 1956, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
What is Percival Everett's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 22, 1956 birth.
What time was Percival Everett 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 Percival Everett's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 22, 1956 birth date.
What is Percival Everett's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 22, 1956 birth date.
Where is Percival Everett's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Percival Everett's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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