Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend (born May 19, 1945, London, United Kingdom), aged 81, is a British musician. Townshend is best known for My Generation, Pinball Wizard and Tommy. Townshend's honours include Kennedy Center Honors and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Pete Townshend’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Pete
Pete Townshend’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
In 1945, 578 American boys were registered Pete — 234th on the SSA's list that year.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Pete apart
Malcolm X (1925) and Sam Smith (1992) 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 boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Pete creates
How Pete makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Pete creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Pete is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Pete 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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Townshend
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 Merak, in Ursa Major, 84.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -6° below the horizon, Moon up and 59% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Pete's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Pete Townshend's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 19, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Pete Townshend was born on May 19, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Pete Townshend's birth date, May 19, 1945, 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 Townshend's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Pete Townshend combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Pete’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Pete’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.5° orb
Pete’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.9° to 5.2° orb
Pete’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 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 ℞Virgo 26°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 26°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 24°51′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.1°
Pete’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
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 quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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Also born on May 19
- Malcolm X1925
- Sam Smith1992
- Grace Jones1948
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Edward Mills PurcellAmerican physicist
- Hans von Euler-ChelpinSwedish scientist
- Robert HuberGerman chemist (1937-)
Other Taurus Rooster charts
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- Lauren JacksonAustralian basketball player
- Susie WilesChief of Staff to President of the United States
- Morgan WallenAmerican country singer
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Djibril SowSwiss association football player
- Alexander PrassAustrian association football player
- Keisuke GotoJapanese association football player
- Kenan YıldızTurkish association football player (born 2005)
Famous people with Life Path 7
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Pete’s cards
Computed from May 19, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pete’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26933 (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 Roman Konertz, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pete Townshend at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Townshend.
Quick answers about Pete Townshend’s chart
- How old is Pete Townshend?
- Pete Townshend is 81 years old, born May 19, 1945 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Pete Townshend?
- Pete Townshend is a Taurus: born May 19, 1945, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Pete Townshend's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 19, 1945 birth.
- How tall is Pete Townshend?
- Pete Townshend is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Pete Townshend's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Pete Townshend's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Pete Townshend's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pete Townshend's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
