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Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda (born February 23, 1940, New York City, United States; died 2019), was an American actor and filmmaker. Fonda is best remembered for Easy Rider, Thomas and the Magic Railroad and The Passion of Ayn Rand. Fonda's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Peter Fonda’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Peter Fonda’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

The SSA recorded 5,049 American boys and 20 girls named Peter in 1940: 43rd among boys and 1,832nd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

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

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Peter apart

Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Peter is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Peter is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Peter needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Peter creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Peter is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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 Fonda

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.8° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Air planets · 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 Fonda at a glance

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Peter Fonda's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Peter Fonda was born on February 23, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Peter Fonda's birth date, February 23, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 0° to 15° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.6° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.8° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 4.2° orbSun in Pisces · 3°57′☉3°Moon in Virgo · 8°09′☽8°Mercury in Pisces · 20°53′☿20°Venus in Aries · 13°41′♀13°Mars in Taurus · 4°29′♂4°Jupiter in Aries · 10°34′♃10°Saturn in Aries · 27°17′♄27°Uranus in Taurus · 18°19′♅18°Neptune in Virgo · 24°42′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Leo · 1°06′ · retrograde♇℞1°

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

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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

  • stableSunsextileMars0.4° to 0.7° orb

    Peter’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.8° to 3.3° orb

    Peter’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.6° to 3.6° orb

    Peter’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.0° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.9° to 7.5° orb

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.6° to 17.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.3° to 18.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 14°22′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 15°14′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 14°35′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°41′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron square Venus 0.7°
  • Eros trine Venus 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.6°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 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.

  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.4°

Peter’s family here

2 relatives of Peter Fonda also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Peter’s cards

Computed from February 23, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210148 (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 No machine-readable author provided. Toglenn assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Fonda at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Fonda.

Quick answers about Peter Fonda’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Fonda?
Peter Fonda was a Pisces: born February 23, 1940, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Peter Fonda's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1940 birth.
What was Peter Fonda's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Peter Fonda's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Peter Fonda's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Fonda's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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