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Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle (born October 18, 1935, Norristown, United States; died 2006), was an American actor. Boyle's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and Judith Wright Prize.

Peter Boyle’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Peter Boyle’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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

Peter ranked 59th among boys and 2,698th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 3,422 American boys and 11 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’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 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

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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

Peter Boyle took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 1996, at 61.

Training came by way of HB Studio and La Salle University.

The working life starts in 1965, at 30.

Cause of death is recorded as multiple myeloma; the grave is at Green River Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Peter Boyle under Burials at Green River Cemetery, Deaths from multiple myeloma in New York (state) and Male actors from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
HB Studio, La Salle University and West Philadelphia Catholic High School
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (1996) and Judith Wright Prize (2010)
Working from
1965
Cause of death
multiple myeloma
Buried at
Green River Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
45

What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Peter is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Peter is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Peter needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Peter and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Peter creates

How Peter makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Peter creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Peter 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 Peter leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Peter has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Peter

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Peter

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Peter

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Boyle

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norristown 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 Norristown that night

Computed for 40.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Norristown at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 12.8° of the exact zenith.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 40.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norristown on any night.

The Moon, 52% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Norristown, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2006.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Peter Boyle: 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

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Peter Boyle at a glance

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Peter Boyle's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Peter Boyle was born on October 18, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Peter Boyle's birth date, October 18, 1935, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Peter’s chart

Peter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.8° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.9° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 3° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3° orbSun in Libra · 24°23′☉24°Moon in Cancer · 18°24′☽18°Mercury in Libra · 23°20′ · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Virgo · 12°45′♀12°Mars in Sagittarius · 22°36′♂22°Jupiter in Scorpio · 25°26′♃25°Saturn in Pisces · 3°51′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Taurus · 3°53′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Virgo · 15°45′♆15°Pluto in Cancer · 27°23′♇27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 2.2° orb

    Peter’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.7° orb

    Peter’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.0° orb

    Peter’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.6° to 1.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.5° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.7° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 4.7° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 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 15°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 9°50′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°01′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 7°53′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.8°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Peter’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.

  • Venus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 1.2°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from October 18, 1935. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315123 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Boyle 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 Peter Boyle.

Quick answers about Peter Boyle’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Boyle?
Peter Boyle was a Libra: born October 18, 1935, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Peter Boyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1935 birth.
What was Peter Boyle's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Peter Boyle's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Peter Boyle's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Boyle's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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