Peter Arnett
Peter Arnett (born November 13, 1934, Riverton / Aparima, New Zealand; died 2025), was an American journalist. Arnett's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Ischia International Journalism Award.
Peter Arnett’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Arnett’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Peter in the U.S.?
#187
US rank in 2025
~591,531
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
In 1934, 3,290 American boys and 23 girls were registered Peter — 61st among boys and 1,597th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Peter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Peter apart
The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1966, when Peter Arnett was 32.
Peter Arnett was taught at Waitaki Boys' High School.
Cause of death is recorded as prostate cancer.
On Wikipedia the categories read War correspondents of the Vietnam War, Ngāi Tahu people and People from Riverton, New Zealand.
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Waitaki Boys' High School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1966), Ischia International Journalism Award (1991) and Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting (1998)
- Cause of death
- prostate cancer
- Citizenship
- United States and New Zealand
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Peter, according to the stars
Core essence
Peter does not do surface. The core of Peter is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Peter is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter 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 Peter even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Peter creates
How Peter 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. Peter 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: Peter is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Peter is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Peter 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 Peter's birth date. Working below.
Where Peter sits
Six lines
Peter’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Peter Arnett
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Riverton / Aparima 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 Riverton / Aparima that night
Computed for 46.35°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Ankaa stood nearest the zenith over Riverton / Aparima at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.4° above the horizon in Phoenix.
Of the 78 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 46.4°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
Capella and Deneb cannot be seen from Riverton / Aparima at all: they sit past the +43.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon up and 42% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Riverton / Aparima, New Zealand
The death is recorded at Newport Beach, Orange County in 2025.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Peter Arnett: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Pluto
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Peter Arnett's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Peter Arnett was born on November 13, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Peter Arnett's birth date, November 13, 1934, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Arnett's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter Arnett combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 0.9° orb
Peter’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
Peter’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.6° orb
Peter’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquarePluto2.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.6° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 8°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 0°46′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°29′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°58′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 13°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.2°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Peter’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Peter’s cards
Computed from November 13, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q142025 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Arnett at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter Arnett.
Quick answers about Peter Arnett’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Peter Arnett?
- Peter Arnett was a Scorpio: born November 13, 1934, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Peter Arnett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1934 birth.
- What was Peter Arnett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Peter Arnett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Peter Arnett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Peter Arnett's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
