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Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (born January 8, 1917, Trenton, United States; died 1994), was an American writer. Taylor is best remembered for A Summons to Memphis. Taylor's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, 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 50th among boys and 2,522nd among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 3,464 American boys and 13 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

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

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The record

What sets Peter apart

Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Peter is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Peter is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Peter needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

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 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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Peter is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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.

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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

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 build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Peter’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 85.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 75.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Trenton that night

Computed for 35.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Trenton at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.3° above the horizon in Perseus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 36.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Trenton on any night.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.

How unusual Peter's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 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.

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Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was born on January 8, 1917, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's birth date, January 8, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 16° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.5° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.9° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.4° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.4° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.4° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 17°55′☉17°Moon in Cancer · 22°35′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 5°27′☿5°Venus in Sagittarius · 21°39′♀21°Mars in Capricorn · 29°23′♂29°Jupiter in Aries · 26°02′♃26°Saturn in Cancer · 27°53′ · retrograde♄℞27°Uranus in Aquarius · 17°57′♅17°Neptune in Leo · 3°56′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Cancer · 3°06′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.1° to 1.9° orb

    Peter’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Peter’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Peter’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.0° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter3.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.8° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 22°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 20°51′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 21°48′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°51′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 0.8°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.8°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.9°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Saturn, Pluto

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
  • Venus biquintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.4°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from January 8, 1917. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q979076 (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 Cmacauley (talk) 01:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor at Wikipedia.

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

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Quick answers about Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor?
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1917, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1917 birth.
What was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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