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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

Peter ranked 50th among boys and 2,464th among girls in 1916, the year of this birth, with 3,370 American boys and 13 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

2

Soul Urge · closeness

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1916, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Peter apart

Peter Viereck took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948, at 32.

The classrooms behind this chart: Horace Mann School and Harvard University.

The grave is at Evergreen Cemetery.

Peter Viereck was born to Margaret Edith Hein and George Sylvester Viereck.

Wikipedia's editors put Peter Viereck under Mount Holyoke College faculty, Horace Mann School alumni and Historians from New York (state).

Neil Armstrong (1930) and Janet McTeer (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Horace Mann School and Harvard University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1948) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1949)
Buried at
Evergreen Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
11

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. 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 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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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 →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Vega, in Lyra, 83.3° up.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 42% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at South Hadley, Hampshire County in 2006.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Peter Viereck: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Peter's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Neptune

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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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.

What Leo means →

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.

What the Dragon means →

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.

What Life Path 3 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 21° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.1° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 27°32′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Peter’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Peter’s cards

Computed from August 5, 1916. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q559567 (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 Viereck at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Peter Viereck's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Peter Viereck's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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