Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty (born October 15, 1940, Brisbane, Australia), aged 86, is an Australian immunologist. Doherty's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Companion of the Order of Australia and Australian National Living Treasure.
Peter C. Doherty’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter C. Doherty’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 43rd among boys and 1,832nd among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 5,049 American boys and 20 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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 1940, 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 C. Doherty took the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1983, at 43.
Indooroopilly State High School and University of Queensland shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Peter C. Doherty under People from Brisbane, Australian veterinarians and Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Indooroopilly State High School, University of Queensland and University of Edinburgh
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1996), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1983) and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1995)
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Peter needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Peter creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Peter is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Peter is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Peter fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Peter C. Doherty
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brisbane 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 Brisbane that night
Computed for 27.47°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fomalhaut stood nearest the zenith over Brisbane at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.1° above the horizon in Piscis Austrinus.
Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 68 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 27.5°S there are stars that never set at all. Acrux stay up year round.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 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 →Peter C. Doherty at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Peter C. Doherty's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Peter C. Doherty was born on October 15, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Peter C. Doherty's birth date, October 15, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter C. Doherty's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter C. Doherty combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 13° Aries 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
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.4° orb
Peter’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 0.3° orb
Peter’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Peter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.6° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 5.8° to 17.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 0°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°48′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°07′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 24°13′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.4°
- Eros square Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.0°
- Eros trine Venus 2.2°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Peter’s cards
Computed from October 15, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309814 (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 Vogler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter C. Doherty at Wikipedia, peterdoherty.com.au and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter C. Doherty.
Quick answers about Peter C. Doherty’s chart
- How old is Peter C. Doherty?
- Peter C. Doherty is 86 years old, born October 15, 1940 in Brisbane, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Peter C. Doherty?
- Peter C. Doherty is a Libra: born October 15, 1940, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1940 birth.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Peter C. Doherty's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
