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Peter Hyams

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943, New York City, United States), aged 83, is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Hyams's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Peter Hyams’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Peter Hyams’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 1943, Peter came 39th among boys and 2,227th among girls, carried by 6,877 American boys and 17 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9).

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

5 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Gold · 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 1943, 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 Hyams took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1985, at 42.

High School of Music & Art and Hunter College shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1974, at 31.

The family line: born to Ruth Hurok and Barry Hyams and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Peter Hyams: Screenwriters from Los Angeles, American television journalists and Hunter College alumni.

The same date carries Mick Jagger. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
High School of Music & Art, Hunter College and Syracuse University
Instruments
drum kit
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1985)
Working from
1974
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
26

What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Peter is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Peter creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Peter is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Peter

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Peter

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Hyams

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

Peter’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 73.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.4° above the horizon in Draco.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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 waning crescent, 23% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.

How unusual Peter's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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The quick version

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Peter Hyams's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Peter Hyams was born on July 26, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Peter Hyams's birth date, July 26, 1943, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 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 25° to 8° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.7° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.8° orbSun in Leo · 2°47′☉2°Moon in Gemini · 2°03′☽2°Mercury in Leo · 12°11′☿12°Venus in Virgo · 13°57′♀13°Mars in Taurus · 12°38′♂12°Jupiter in Leo · 5°38′♃5°Saturn in Gemini · 22°02′♄22°Uranus in Gemini · 7°49′♅7°Neptune in Virgo · 29°49′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 6°43′♇6°

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Peter’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.0° to 1.2° orb

    Peter’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb

    Peter’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto3.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.5° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.6° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.7° to 7.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus5.9° to 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo or Virgo during this date

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 14°19′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 5°48′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 0°49′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°00′ (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 conjunction Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, 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.

  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°

Born the same day as Peter

Mick Jagger was born on July 26, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Peter’s cards

Computed from July 26, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q458766 (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.

The same Peter Hyams at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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

Quick answers about Peter Hyams’s chart

How old is Peter Hyams?
Peter Hyams is 83 years old, born July 26, 1943 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Peter Hyams?
Peter Hyams is a Leo: born July 26, 1943, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Peter Hyams's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1943 birth.
What is Peter Hyams's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Peter Hyams's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo or Virgo, changing sign during the birth date. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Peter Hyams's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Peter Hyams's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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