Peter Balakian
Peter Balakian (born June 13, 1951, Teaneck, United States), aged 75, is an Armenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Balakian's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Peter Balakian’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Balakian’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1951, 8,999 American boys and 14 girls were registered Peter — 38th among boys and 2,896th 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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9).
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
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Poetry came in 2016, when Peter Balakian was 65.
Study took Peter Balakian to Dwight-Englewood School and Bucknell University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Colgate University faculty, Armenian-English translators and Ethnic Armenian translators.
Stellan Skarsgård shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Dwight-Englewood School, Bucknell University and New York University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
What the chart says
Peter, according to the stars
Core essence
Peter is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Peter needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Peter openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Peter builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Peter is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Peter is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Peter scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Balakian
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Teaneck 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 Teaneck that night
Computed for 40.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Teaneck at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Teaneck sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Teaneck on any night.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon up and 63% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Uranus · A leaning bowl
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Peter Balakian's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Peter Balakian was born on June 13, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Peter Balakian's birth date, June 13, 1951, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Balakian's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Peter Balakian combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.3° to 1.0° orb
Peter’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.8° to 1.7° orb
Peter’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Peter’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.2° to 3.0° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 0°19′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 14°33′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°07′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 18°30′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 27°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.0°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.4°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Peter’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as Peter
Stellan Skarsgård was born on June 13, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Teaneck sits at 40.9°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Peter
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Born in Rabbit years
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- Rhea DurhamAmerican model
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Other Evergreen Storytellers
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Peter’s cards
Computed from June 13, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1382375 (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 Colgate University, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Balakian at Wikipedia, peterbalakian.com and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter Balakian.
Quick answers about Peter Balakian’s chart
- How old is Peter Balakian?
- Peter Balakian is 75 years old, born June 13, 1951 in Teaneck, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Peter Balakian?
- Peter Balakian is a Gemini: born June 13, 1951, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Peter Balakian's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1951 birth.
- What is Peter Balakian's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter Balakian's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Peter Balakian's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter Balakian's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
