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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Pete
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
Pete ranked 201st among boys and 4,693rd among girls in 1919, the year of this birth, with 628 American boys and 6 girls 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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
The record
What sets Pete apart
Golda Meir (1898) and James Brown (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Pete sits
Six lines
Pete’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Seeger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 20% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
How unusual Pete's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableMercurysextileVenus3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto6.3° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 17°47′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°07′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°57′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Pete’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Pete’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.
- 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°
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Mike Adenuga
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- Emily HenryAmerican novelist
Born in Goat years
- Víctor MuñozSpanish association football player (born 2003)
- Luca JaquezSwiss footballer
- Nathaniel BrownGerman association football player
Also born on May 3
- Golda Meir1898
- James Brown1933
- Steven Weinberg1933
- Christina Hendricks1975
- Rachel Zegler2001
- Genevieve Nnaji1979
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Thornton WilderAmerican playwright and novelist
- Frank LoesserAmerican songwriter
- David KertzerAmerican historian and anthropologist
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Sharman JoshiIndian actor
- Adriana AstiItalian theatre, film, and voice actress
- Lionel BoyceAmerican actor (born 1991)
- Fred ZinnemannAustrian film director
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Ariana DeBoseAmerican actress
- Owen CooperEnglish actor (born 2009)
- Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)
- Kim HunterAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Dallas GoedertAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Brandon StephensAmerican football cornerback born 1997
- Andy DaltonAmerican football player (born 1987)
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Pete’s cards
Computed from May 3, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pete’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q244441 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Pete Seeger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Pete Seeger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
