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Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing (born May 26, 1913, Kenley, United Kingdom; died 1994), was a British actor. Cushing's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award.

Peter Cushing’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Peter Cushing’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

Of the names registered in 1913, Peter came 51st among boys and 2,295th among girls, carried by 1,934 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

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

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink

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 1913, 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 Cushing took the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1956, at 43.

The classrooms behind this chart: Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Shoreham College.

The working life starts in 1935, at 22.

Cause of death is recorded as prostate cancer.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Peter Cushing: Actors from the London Borough of Croydon, English watercolourists and People educated at Shoreham College.

Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Shoreham College and Purley High School for Boys
Awards
Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (1976), British Academy Television Award for Best Actor (1956) and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1989)
Nominated for
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Working from
1935
Cause of death
prostate cancer
Citizenship
United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
56

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.

The vibe

Underneath, Peter needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Peter needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Peter is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Peter gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Cushing

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kenley on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Peter’s birth-night reference starMizarwhite · Ursa MajorMizar, in Ursa Major. A white star, 85.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mizar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 19.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kenley that night

Computed for 51.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kenley was Mizar, in Ursa Major, 85.9° up.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 51.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −38.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kenley on any night.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 61% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Kenley, United Kingdom
Lived in
Purley · Whitstable

Wikidata records Purley and Whitstable as Peter Cushing's home, against Kenley as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Canterbury in 1994.

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

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Gemini · 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.

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Peter Cushing in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Peter Cushing's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Peter Cushing was born on May 26, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Peter Cushing's birth date, May 26, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.2° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Gemini · 4°37′☉4°Moon in Aquarius · 18°12′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 26°46′☿26°Venus in Aries · 27°56′♀27°Mars in Aries · 13°58′♂13°Jupiter in Capricorn · 17°10′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Gemini · 7°08′♄7°Uranus in Aquarius · 7°28′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Cancer · 23°57′♆23°Pluto in Gemini · 28°57′♇28°

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

  • stableSaturntrineUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Peter’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.8° to 1.2° orb

    Peter’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.9° orb

    Peter’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.8° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 3.7° to 13.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.0° to 15.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 4.7° to 16.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 14°53′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 22°27′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 28°55′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°38′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 9°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Pluto 0.0°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.5°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.8°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.4°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.8°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from May 26, 1913. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309589 (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 Hammer films, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Cushing at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter Cushing.

Quick answers about Peter Cushing’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Cushing?
Peter Cushing was a Gemini: born May 26, 1913, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Peter Cushing's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1913 birth.
What was Peter Cushing's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Peter Cushing's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Peter Cushing's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Cushing's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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