Pete Docter
Pete Docter (born October 9, 1968, Bloomington, United States), aged 58, is an American animator and film director. Docter's honours include Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Annie Award and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
Pete Docter’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Pete
Pete Docter’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Pete in the U.S.?
#2382
US rank in 2025
~43,700
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Pete ranked 409th in 1968, the year of this birth, with 357 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pete’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (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
Pete’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, 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 Pete apart
Pete Docter took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2009, at 41.
University of Minnesota and Bloomington Kennedy High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1988, at 20.
Wikipedia's editors put Pete Docter under Film directors from Minnesota, American voice directors and Animators from Minnesota.
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Minnesota, Bloomington Kennedy High School and MacPhail Center for Music
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (2016) and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2009)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Working from
- 1988
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 39
What the chart says
Pete, according to the stars
Core essence
Pete makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Pete is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Pete is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Pete needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Pete wants to be loved
Pete wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Pete even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Pete creates
How Pete makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Pete creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Pete 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Pete is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Pete channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Pete's birth date. Working below.
Where Pete sits
Six lines
Pete’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 Pete Docter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bloomington 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 Bloomington that night
Computed for 44.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Bloomington at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 44.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
How unusual Pete's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Saturn · Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Libra
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Pete Docter's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Pete Docter was born on October 9, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Pete Docter's birth date, October 9, 1968, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Pete’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pete Docter's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Pete Docter combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Pete’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Taurus 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
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.2° orb
Pete’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.9° orb
Pete’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Pete’s growth and depths act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.9° to 6.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.1° to 7.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 1.3° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Pete’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 24°54′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°02′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°48′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.0°
Pete’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Pete’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Saturn · Neptune, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.3°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Pete’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Josh GiddeyAustralian basketball player (born 2002)
- Cade CunninghamAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- LJ CryerAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Born in Monkey years
- Don BradmanAustralian cricketer
- Kim CattrallBritish–Canadian actress
- Norman ReedusAmerican actor
Also born on October 9
- John Lennon1940
- Boris Nemtsov1959
- Bella Hadid1996
- Patson Daka1998
- Ben Shelton2002
- Tyler James Williams1992
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Frederik PohlAmerican science fiction writer and editor
- Octavia E. ButlerAmerican science fiction writer
- Gary K. WolfAmerican author
Other Libra Monkey charts
- Tisha CampbellAmerican actress
- Sunny HostinAmerican lawyer, journalist, and television host
- Jane KrakowskiAmerican actress and singer, comedian
- Zachary LeviAmerican actor (born 1980)
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Sydney PollackAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Mercedes RuehlAmerican actress
- Candice BergenAmerican actress (born 1946)
- Alan MenkenAmerican composer (born 1949)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Louis Rees-ZammitWelsh rugby and American football player
- Maro ItojeEnglish rugby union player
- Romain NtamackFrench rugby union player
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Pete’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pete’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q357627 (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 nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pete Docter at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pete Docter.
Quick answers about Pete Docter’s chart
- How old is Pete Docter?
- Pete Docter is 58 years old, born October 9, 1968 in Bloomington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Pete Docter?
- Pete Docter is a Libra: born October 9, 1968, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Pete Docter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1968 birth.
- What is Pete Docter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Pete Docter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Pete Docter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pete Docter's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
