Peter Medawar
Peter Medawar (born February 28, 1915, Petrópolis, Brazil; died 1987), was an English-brazilian biologist. Medawar's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Merit and Knight Bachelor.
Peter Medawar’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Medawar’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1915, Peter came 49th among boys and 1,730th among girls, carried by 3,302 American boys and 20 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Peter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, 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 Medawar took the Royal Medal in 1959, at 44.
The classrooms behind this chart: Marlborough College and Magdalen College.
The grave is at St. Andrew's Churchyard, Alfriston.
Peter Medawar was married Jean Medawar and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Peter Medawar: Critics of Lamarckism, Brazilian emigrants to the United Kingdom and British people of Lebanese descent.
Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Marlborough College, Magdalen College and University of Oxford
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1969), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960) and Order of Merit (1981)
- Buried at
- St. Andrew's Churchyard, Alfriston
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Peter, according to the stars
Core essence
Peter feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Peter is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Peter you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Peter is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Peter leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Peter goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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
Dedicate a star to Peter Medawar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Petrópolis 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 Petrópolis that night
Computed for 22.50°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Petrópolis was Azmidi, in Puppis, 87.2° up.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 22.5°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Petrópolis, Brazil
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Peter Medawar: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets · A leaning bowl
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Peter Medawar's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Peter Medawar was born on February 28, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Peter Medawar's birth date, February 28, 1915, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Medawar's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Peter Medawar combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Peter’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 7.7° orb
Peter’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.7° to 3.1° orb
Peter’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.6° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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 17°53′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 25°18′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 23°14′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 18°40′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Saturn 0.1°
- Eros trine Venus 0.2°
- Eros square Mars 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.9°
- Eros square Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.8°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.0°
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Fellow Pisces suns
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- Phil KnightAmerican billionaire and co-founder of Nike
Born in Rabbit years
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- Juan Manuel Santospresident of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
- Neil SimonAmerican playwright, writer, and academic
Also born on February 28
- Linus Pauling1901
- Steven Chu1948
- Ali Larter1976
- Jeremy Allen White1991
- Emmelie de Forest1993
- Jason Aldean1977
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- Tom KimSouth Korean professional golfer
Other Pisces Rabbit charts
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- Jalen RedmondAmerican football player (born 1999)
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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- Paul KeatingAustralian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
- Ronda RouseyAmerican former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler, and judoka
- Jason SegelAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
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- Wynonna JuddAmerican country singer (born 1964)
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Peter’s cards
Computed from February 28, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q214209 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Medawar at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter Medawar.
Quick answers about Peter Medawar’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Peter Medawar?
- Peter Medawar was a Pisces: born February 28, 1915, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Peter Medawar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1915 birth.
- What was Peter Medawar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Peter Medawar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Peter Medawar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Peter Medawar's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
