Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born December 6, 1942, Griffen, Austria), aged 83, is an Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942). Handke is best known for The Moravian Night, The Left-Handed Woman and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams. Handke's honours include Georg Büchner Prize.
Peter Handke’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Handke’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, 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
Peter ranked 39th among boys and 2,102nd among girls in 1942, the year of this birth, with 6,587 American boys and 18 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
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
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Peter apart
Geoffrey Hinton (1947) and Tim Cahill (1979) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Peter is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Peter feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Peter needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Peter and watch them fall for you again.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Peter creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Peter is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Peter is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Peter runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Peter Handke
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Griffen 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 Griffen that night
Computed for 46.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Griffen at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Griffen sits at 46.7°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −43.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Earth 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.
Score your own chart →Peter Handke at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Peter Handke's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Peter Handke was born on December 6, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Peter Handke's birth date, December 6, 1942, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Handke's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter Handke combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Scorpio 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
stableUranustrineNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Peter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Peter’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
Peter’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto5.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 29°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 21°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°06′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°23′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.7°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.8°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Peter’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.7°
More people like Peter
Other screenwriters
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- Michael Crichton1942
- David Gerrold1944
- Joy Behar1942
- Alice Walker1944
- Roger Ebert1942
Born in Austria
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- Maximilian SchellSwiss and Austrian film and stage actor
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- Martin KarplusAustrian-born American theoretical chemist
- Andrea EckertAustrian actress
- Eric KandelAmerican neuropsychiatrist
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Born in Horse years
- Kellyanne ConwaySenior Counselor to the President of the United States from 2017 to 2020
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Also born on December 6
- Geoffrey Hinton1947
- Tim Cahill1979
- Giannis Antetokounmpo1994
- Andrew Cuomo1957
- Judd Apatow1967
- Ashley Madekwe1981
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Nayib BukelePresident of El Salvador since 2019
- Jamie Lee CurtisAmerican actress and author
- Tim CookAmerican business executive, Apple CEO
Other Sagittarius Horse charts
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
- Grace HopperAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer
- Katie HolmesAmerican actress
- Manny PacquiaoFilipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor, politician and philanthropist
Other Tidal Seekers
- Hernán CrespoArgentine footballer
- Helen ClarkPrime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
- FergieAmerican singer, rapper and actress
- AaliyahAmerican R&B singer
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Peter’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44107 (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 "Wild + Team Agentur - UNI Salzburg", CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Handke 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 Handke.
Quick answers about Peter Handke’s chart
- How old is Peter Handke?
- Peter Handke is 83 years old, born December 6, 1942 in Griffen, Austria.
- What zodiac sign is Peter Handke?
- Peter Handke is a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1942, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Peter Handke's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1942 birth.
- What is Peter Handke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter Handke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Peter Handke's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter Handke's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
