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Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel (born October 11, 1967, Frankfurt, Germany), aged 59, is a German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Thiel is best known for The Stanford Review. Thiel's honours include Frank Schirrmacher Award and Axel Springer Award.

Peter Thiel’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Peter Thiel’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1967, 8,311 American boys and 24 girls were registered Peter — 39th among boys and 2,540th 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

6

Soul Urge · being needed

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

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Peter apart

The Stanford Review. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Stanford Law School and San Mateo High School.

Peter Thiel was born to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and married Matt Danzeisen.

Amitabh Bachchan (1942) and Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
The Stanford Review
Educated at
Stanford Law School, San Mateo High School and Stanford University
Awards
Frank Schirrmacher Award (2021) and Axel Springer Award (2026)
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Peter is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Peter and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Peter creates

How Peter makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Peter creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Peter is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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.

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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Thiel

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

Peter’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 76.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 23.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Frankfurt that night

Computed for 50.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Frankfurt was Deneb, in Cygnus, 76.7° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.

Frankfurt sits at 50.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Frankfurt at all: they sit past the −39.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 64% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Peter's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

2 unaspected planets

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.

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The quick version

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Peter Thiel's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Peter Thiel was born on October 11, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Peter Thiel's birth date, October 11, 1967, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Peter’s chart

Peter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.1° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.7° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.8° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.9° orbSun in Libra · 17°27′☉17°Moon in Capricorn · 29°03′☽29°Mercury in Scorpio · 12°31′☿12°Venus in Virgo · 5°04′♀5°Mars in Sagittarius · 21°34′♂21°Jupiter in Leo · 28°38′♃28°Saturn in Aries · 8°21′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Virgo · 26°15′♅26°Neptune in Scorpio · 22°46′♆22°Pluto in Virgo · 21°25′♇21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Peter’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.5° orb

    Peter’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 1.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 2.8° to 15.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 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 ℞Pisces 26°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 22°01′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 9°38′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 10°07′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.4°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.9°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 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.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.3°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from October 11, 1967. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q705525 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Peter Thiel at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Peter Thiel.

Quick answers about Peter Thiel’s chart

How old is Peter Thiel?
Peter Thiel is 59 years old, born October 11, 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Peter Thiel?
Peter Thiel is a Libra: born October 11, 1967, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Peter Thiel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1967 birth.
What is Peter Thiel's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Peter Thiel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Peter Thiel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Peter Thiel's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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