Peter J. Ratcliffe
Peter J. Ratcliffe (born May 14, 1954, Morecambe, United Kingdom), aged 72, is a British biologist & Nobel laureate in medicine. Ratcliffe's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Buchanan Medal.
Peter J. Ratcliffe’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Peter J. Ratcliffe’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Peter, according to the stars
Core essence
Peter is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Peter is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Peter cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Peter needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Peter like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Peter creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Peter is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Peter does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Peter's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Peter J. Ratcliffe's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 14, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Peter J. Ratcliffe was born on May 14, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Peter J. Ratcliffe's birth date, May 14, 1954, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter J. Ratcliffe's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Peter J. Ratcliffe combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Peter J. Ratcliffe, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsquarePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
Peter’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Peter’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus2.7° to 3.6° orb
Peter’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto3.0° to 4.2° orb
Peter’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.2° to 3.4° orb
Peter’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb
Peter’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
Peter’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineNeptune4.4° to 5.6° orb
Peter’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 7.2° orb
Peter’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.9° orb
Peter’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 28°36′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Peter is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 0°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Peter is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 1°11′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Peter attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°04′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Peter is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Peter that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Eros opposition Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Peter’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Peter is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Peter’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter J. Ratcliffe, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from May 14, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Peter J. Ratcliffe, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2075967, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva., CC BY 2.5 ar, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter J. Ratcliffe at Wikipedia and ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Peter J. Ratcliffe’s chart
- How old is Peter J. Ratcliffe?
- Peter J. Ratcliffe is 72 years old, born May 14, 1954 in Morecambe, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Peter J. Ratcliffe?
- Peter J. Ratcliffe is a Taurus: born May 14, 1954, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 14, 1954 birth.
- What time was Peter J. Ratcliffe born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the May 14, 1954 birth date.
- What is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 14, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter J. Ratcliffe's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
