Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty (born October 15, 1940, Brisbane, Australia), aged 85, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Peter C. Doherty, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 13° Aries 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.
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
Peter’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextilePluto1.6° to 2.2° orb
Peter’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb
Peter’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb
Peter’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
Peter’s affections flow straight into their growth.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 0°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Peter performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°48′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Peter is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°07′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Peter is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 24°13′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Peter needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Peter carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Peter’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Peter 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 Peter’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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter C. Doherty, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from October 15, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Peter C. Doherty, 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
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309814, 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 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. 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 Peter C. Doherty.
Quick answers about Peter C. Doherty’s chart
- How old is Peter C. Doherty?
- Peter C. Doherty is 85 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Peter C. Doherty 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.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 15, 1940 birth date.
- What is Peter C. Doherty's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 15, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
