Peter Nicholls
Peter Nicholls (born March 8, 1939, Melbourne, Australia; died 2018), was an Australian literary scholar and critic. Nicholls's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Pilgrim Award.
Peter Nicholls’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Nicholls’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional 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
In 1939, 4,639 American boys and 11 girls were registered Peter — 46th among boys and 2,711th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against 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
33 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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
The Pilgrim Award came in 1980, when Peter Nicholls was 41.
Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease.
On the family side, Peter Nicholls was raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Australian speculative fiction editors, Writers from Melbourne and Harkness Fellows.
Marjorie Estiano (1982) and Warren Zaïre-Emery (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2012) and Pilgrim Award (1980)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work
- Cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
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.
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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Peter be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Peter builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Peter is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Peter has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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 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 Nicholls
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melbourne 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 Melbourne that night
Computed for 37.81°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Melbourne at 9 p.m. that evening: Naos of Puppis, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
Melbourne sits at 37.8°S, high enough that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon up and 90% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Melbourne, Australia
The death is recorded at Melbourne, Victoria in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Peter Nicholls: 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
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars · 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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Peter Nicholls's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 8, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Peter Nicholls was born on March 8, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Lifts the room by example.
Peter Nicholls's birth date, March 8, 1939, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Nicholls' date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Peter Nicholls combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Peter’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Peter’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.8° to 1.6° orb
Peter’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.9° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.5° to 5.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 4°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°25′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°38′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°33′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.9°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Peter’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Neptune, MarsAn 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 Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on March 8
- Marjorie Estiano1982
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Peter’s cards
Computed from March 8, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7176095 (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 Johan Jönsson (Julle), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Nicholls 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 Nicholls.
Quick answers about Peter Nicholls’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Peter Nicholls?
- Peter Nicholls was a Pisces: born March 8, 1939, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Peter Nicholls's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 8, 1939 birth.
- What was Peter Nicholls's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What was Peter Nicholls's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Peter Nicholls's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Peter Nicholls's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
