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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with Pete Townshend?
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Pete Townshend in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Pete Townshend, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Leo or 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.
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.
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
Pete’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 5.0° orb
Pete’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto4.2° orb
Pete’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
Pete’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
Pete’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
Pete’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
Pete’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb
Pete’s affections and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 26°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Pete turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 26°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Pete is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 24°51′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Pete loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°45′ (moves 0.14° 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. Pete is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Pete that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.1°
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, 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
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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Pete Townshend, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Pete’s cards
Every card is computed from May 19, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Pete Townshend, 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 Q26933, 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 Roman Konertz, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pete Townshend at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- 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.
- What time was Pete Townshend 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.
- 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 from the May 19, 1945 birth date.
- What is Pete Townshend's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 19, 1945 birth date.
- 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.
