Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle (born April 20, 1939, The Bronx, United States), aged 87, is an American writer. Beagle is best known for The Last Unicorn. Beagle's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Peter S. Beagle’s zodiac sign is Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Peter, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Peter is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Peter needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Peter, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Peter creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 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: 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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The quick version
Aries or Taurus Sun
Peter S. Beagle was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Peter S. Beagle was born on April 20, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Peter S. Beagle's birth date, April 20, 1939, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter S. Beagle's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Peter S. Beagle, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Taurus 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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Peter’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineUranus0.5° to 0.9° orb
Peter’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb
Peter’s affections and growth act as one.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.8° orb
Peter’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.5° to 3.7° orb
Peter’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Peter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.7° orb
Peter’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.8° orb
Peter’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.7° to 5.2° orb
Peter’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.9° to 6.3° orb
Peter’s drive grinds against their discipline.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 5°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Peter is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 10°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Peter feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 4°15′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Peter is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Peter is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Peter at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Chiron square Mercury 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.0°
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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Peter is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter S. Beagle, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from April 20, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Peter S. Beagle, 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 Q285007, 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.
The same Peter S. Beagle at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 S. Beagle’s chart
- How old is Peter S. Beagle?
- Peter S. Beagle is 87 years old, born April 20, 1939 in The Bronx, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Peter S. Beagle?
- Peter S. Beagle was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is Peter S. Beagle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1939 birth.
- What time was Peter S. Beagle 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 is Peter S. Beagle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1939 birth date.
- What is Peter S. Beagle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Peter S. Beagle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter S. Beagle's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
