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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Peter
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
Of the names registered in 1954, Peter came 37th among boys and 2,674th among girls, carried by 10,085 American boys and 18 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Peter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against 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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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 J. Ratcliffe took the Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002, at 48.
The classrooms behind this chart: Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Lancaster Royal Grammar School.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Peter J. Ratcliffe: Medical doctors from Lancashire, British cell biologists and Alumni of the University of Oxford.
Mark Zuckerberg (1984) and George Lucas (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2019), Knight Bachelor (2014) and Buchanan Medal (2017)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
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. Working below.
Where Peter sits
Six lines
Peter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Morecambe 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 Morecambe that night
Computed for 54.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Morecambe was Merak, in Ursa Major, 86.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
From 54.1°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 −35.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 92% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -0° below the horizon.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Libra 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
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
stableMarssextileSaturn3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 7.2° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 28°36′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 0°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 1°11′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°04′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Peter’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Peter’s cards
Computed from May 14, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2075967 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter J. Ratcliffe.
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.
- 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 is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter J. Ratcliffe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
