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Peter Firth

Peter Firth (born October 27, 1953, Bradford, United Kingdom), aged 73, is an English actor (born 1953). Firth's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Theatre World Award.

Peter Firth’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Peter Firth’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

Of the names registered in 1953, Peter came 38th among boys and 2,222nd among girls, carried by 9,729 American boys and 23 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Peter apart

Theodore Roosevelt (1858) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter does not do surface. The core of Peter is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Peter is earned slowly and never given lightly.

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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Peter gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Peter channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Peter

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

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 Firth

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

Computed for 53.79°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Caph stood nearest the zenith over Bradford at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.4° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 53.8°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 67% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.

How unusual Peter's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Peter Firth's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 27, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Peter Firth was born on October 27, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Peter Firth's birth date, October 27, 1953, 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 3° to 16° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 3°47′☉3°Moon in Cancer · 9°46′☽9°Mercury in Scorpio · 27°30′☿27°Venus in Libra · 10°59′♀10°Mars in Virgo · 26°50′♂26°Jupiter in Gemini · 26°13′ · retrograde♃℞26°Saturn in Scorpio · 0°35′♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 23°06′♅23°Neptune in Libra · 24°00′♆23°Pluto in Leo · 24°48′♇24°

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

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 0.9° orb

    Peter’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.6° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

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

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.9° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.3° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus3.4° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.0° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 16°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 15°36′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 20°49′ (moves 0.95° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 28°50′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 2.0°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.

  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from October 27, 1953. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q376981 (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 Damien Everett from Southampton, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Firth 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 Firth.

Quick answers about Peter Firth’s chart

How old is Peter Firth?
Peter Firth is 73 years old, born October 27, 1953 in Bradford, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Peter Firth?
Peter Firth is a Scorpio: born October 27, 1953, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Peter Firth's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1953 birth.
What is Peter Firth's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Peter Firth's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Peter Firth's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Peter Firth's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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