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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Peter
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
In 1925, 3,373 American boys and 13 girls were registered Peter — 60th among boys and 2,743rd 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.
1
Expression · starting things
2
Soul Urge · closeness
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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 record
What sets Peter apart
Bernie Sanders (1941) and Avicii (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Peter sits
Six lines
Peter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Sellers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Southsea 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 Southsea that night
Computed for 50.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Southsea was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 81.4° up.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 50.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −39.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Southsea on any night.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 62% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps 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.
What Virgo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Peter Sellers was born on September 8, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Peter Sellers's birth date, September 8, 1925, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Sellers' date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Peter Sellers combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.8° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus6.6° to 7.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 28°18′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 9°05′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 13°32′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 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.
- 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°
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More charts like Peter’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Tommy Lee JonesAmerican actor and film director (born 1946)
- Ricki LakeAmerican television host and actress (born 1968)
- John MulaneyAmerican comedian and actor (born 1982)
Born in Ox years
- Maxine KuminAmerican poet and author
- Anthony DoerrAmerican writer
- René DubosAmerican microbiologist
Also born on September 8
- Bernie Sanders1941
- Avicii1989
- Pink1979
- Wiz Khalifa1987
- Gaten Matarazzo2002
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian playwright and essayist
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Max von LaueGerman physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi
Other Virgo Ox charts
- John SavageAmerican actor
- Ernie SabellaAmerican actor
- Dean-Charles ChapmanEnglish actor
- Charles SingletonAmerican songwriter
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Wayne MorrisAmerican actor
- Arthur KennedyAmerican actor
- Kingsley AmisEnglish novelist, poet, critic and teacher
- Sidney AltmanCanadian American molecular biologist
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Hans KrebsGerman-British biochemist
- Juan Manuel Santospresident of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
- Shimon PeresIsraeli politician, former President and Prime Minister of Israel
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Peter’s cards
Computed from September 8, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q177984 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Peter Sellers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
