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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~591,531
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets 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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's birth date, January 8, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Cancer 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.
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
Peter’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb
Peter’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.8° to 5.0° orb
Peter’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.1° to 5.0° orb
Peter’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.8° to 6.3° orb
Peter’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Peter’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.7° orb
Peter’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 22°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Peter absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 20°51′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Peter caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosLibra 21°48′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Peter is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°51′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Peter is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Peter is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Saturn, Pluto
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Peter is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
T-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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from January 8, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, 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 Q979076, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- 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 time was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor 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 was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 8, 1917 birth date.
- What was Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 8, 1917 birth date.
- 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.
