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Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck (born August 5, 1916, New York City, United States; died 2006), was an American historian and poet. Viereck's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Peter Viereck’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Peter Viereck’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Peter is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Peter gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Peter creates

How Peter makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Peter builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Peter is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Peter fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

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

PrivateExpressive
Peter

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Peter

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Viereck

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

Peter’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 83.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 19.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Peter Viereck's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Fire Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Peter Viereck was born on August 5, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Peter Viereck's birth date, August 5, 1916, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Peter’s chart

Peter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Peter Viereck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.7° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 2.7° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.8° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Leo · 12°54′☉12°Moon in Libra · 28°23′☽28°Mercury in Leo · 21°41′☿21°Venus in Cancer · 5°28′♀5°Mars in Libra · 8°11′♂8°Jupiter in Taurus · 4°47′♃4°Saturn in Cancer · 23°10′♄23°Uranus in Aquarius · 17°55′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Leo · 2°48′♆2°Pluto in Cancer · 3°47′♇3°

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°
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Trine 120°
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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.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 0.9° orb

    Peter’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.0° orb

    Peter’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.5° to 1.9° orb

    Peter’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.0° orb

    Peter’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 2.8° orb

    Peter’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 4.7° orb

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

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.1° to 4.7° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb

    Peter’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb

    Peter’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Peter absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 27°32′ (moves 0.44° 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.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 3°54′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Peter is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 26°45′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Peter is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°34′ (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 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 2.6°

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. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Peter is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°

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

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Peter’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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The Evergreen Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Peter Viereck, 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 Q559567, 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 Viereck at Wikipedia.

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 Viereck.

Quick answers about Peter Viereck’s chart

What zodiac sign was Peter Viereck?
Peter Viereck was a Leo: born August 5, 1916, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
What was Peter Viereck's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1916 birth.
What time was Peter Viereck 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 was Peter Viereck's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 5, 1916 birth date.
What was Peter Viereck's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 5, 1916 birth date.
Where was Peter Viereck's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Peter Viereck's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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