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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born September 8, 1925, Southsea, United Kingdom; died 1980), was a British actor and comedian. Sellers's honours include Golden Globe Awards and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Peter Sellers’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Peter Sellers’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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

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

7 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Peter is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Peter gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Peter creates

How Peter makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Peter creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Peter is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Peter channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Peter's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Peter sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Peter

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Peter

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Peter

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Southsea on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Peter Sellers's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Peter Sellers was born on September 8, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Peter Sellers's birth date, September 8, 1925, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Peter’s chart

Peter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Peter Sellers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.8° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.4° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbSun in Virgo · 15°15′15°Moon in Taurus · 27°33′27°Mercury in Leo · 27°43′27°Venus in Libra · 20°55′20°Mars in Virgo · 16°55′16°Jupiter in Capricorn · 12°41′ · retrograde12°Saturn in Scorpio · 10°16′10°Uranus in Pisces · 23°50′ · retrograde23°Neptune in Leo · 23°11′23°Pluto in Cancer · 14°28′14°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.2° orb

    Peter’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Peter’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars1.5° to 1.8° orb

    Peter’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune1.7° to 2.8° orb

    Peter’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.8° orb

    Peter’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb

    Peter’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb

    Peter’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb

    Peter’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.9° to 4.6° orb

    Peter’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° orb

    Peter’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb

    Peter’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus6.6° to 7.2° orb

    Peter’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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.

  • ChironAries 27°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Peter may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresCancer 28°18′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Peter is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ErosLeo 9°05′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Peter loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • HygieaCancer 13°32′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Peter is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • Black Moon LilithCancer 29°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Peter guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.9°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.7°

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. 1. Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Sun5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Peter is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter Sellers, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Wood

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Wood

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Peter Sellers, 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 Q177984, 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 Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Sellers at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Peter Sellers.

Quick answers about Peter Sellers’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Sellers?
Peter Sellers was a Virgo: born September 8, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
What was Peter Sellers's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1925 birth.
What time was Peter Sellers 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.
How tall was Peter Sellers?
Peter Sellers was 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Peter Sellers's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 8, 1925 birth date.
What was Peter Sellers's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 8, 1925 birth date.
Where was Peter Sellers's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Sellers's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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