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), Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Peter
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.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Gold
The record
What sets Peter apart
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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The sky over The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Grand trine · 2 planets 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 →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Taurus 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
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
stableJupitertrinePluto3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.9° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 5°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 10°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 4°15′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mercury 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.0°
Peter’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Peter’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
More people like Peter
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- Jim Hoagland1940
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Born in United States
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- Ellen Taaffe ZwilichAmerican composer
- Lynn Schustermanphilanthropist
- Frank BidartAmerican poet
- Ted TurnerAmerican media mogul
- Ted KooserAmerican poet
More charts like Peter’s
Born in Rabbit years
Year of the Rabbit →Also born on April 20
- Jessica Lange1949
- Miranda Kerr1983
- Carmen Electra1972
- Paul Poiret1879
- Andy Serkis1964
- Tan France1983
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- George Roy HillAmerican film director
- Peter WeirAustralian film director (born 1944)
- Dan O'BannonAmerican film director, screenwriter, actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Caroline WozniackiDanish tennis player
- Kate WalshAmerican actress
- Barbara WaltersAmerican broadcast journalist
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Peter’s cards
Computed from April 20, 1939. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q285007 (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.
The same Peter S. Beagle at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 is Peter S. Beagle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter S. Beagle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
