Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger (born May 3, 1919, New York City, United States; died 2014), was an American folk singer. Seeger is best remembered for Where Have All the Flowers Gone?. Seeger's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
Pete Seeger’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Goat, with 
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Pete Seeger’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Pete’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Pete, according to the stars
Core essence
Pete 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 Pete 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.
How Pete wants to be loved
Pete wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Pete like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Pete creates
How Pete makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Pete creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Pete is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Pete 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 Pete leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Pete is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Pete's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Pete sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Pete Seeger at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Pete Seeger's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Pete Seeger was born on May 3, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Pete Seeger's birth date, May 3, 1919, 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 Pete’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pete Seeger's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Pete Seeger combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Pete’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Pete Seeger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb
Pete’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.3° to 1.6° orb
Pete’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.5° to 2.6° orb
Pete’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° to 2.6° orb
Pete’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.3° to 3.7° orb
Pete’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrinePluto3.7° orb
Pete’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 4.9° orb
Pete’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareNeptune5.1° to 6.0° orb
Pete’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
Pete’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto6.3° to 6.5° orb
Pete’s growth and depths act as one.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Pete’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.
⚷ ChironAries 5°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Pete may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 17°47′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Pete is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 2°07′ (moves 0.27° 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. Pete is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°57′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Pete is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Pete is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 Pluto 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres square Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.5°
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°).
Pete’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter, Pluto
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Pete 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 Pete’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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Pete Seeger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Pete’s cards
Every card is computed from May 3, 1919, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Pete Seeger, 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
Pete’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q244441, 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 Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pete Seeger 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 Pete Seeger.
Quick answers about Pete Seeger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Pete Seeger?
- Pete Seeger was a Taurus: born May 3, 1919, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
- What was Pete Seeger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1919 birth.
- What time was Pete Seeger 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 Pete Seeger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 3, 1919 birth date.
- What was Pete Seeger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 3, 1919 birth date.
- Where was Pete Seeger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Pete Seeger's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
