Peter Watts
Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958, Calgary, Canada), aged 68, is a Canadian biologist and sci-fi author. Watts is best known for Blindsight. Watts's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Shirley Jackson Award.
Peter Watts’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Peter Watts’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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 is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Peter is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Peter runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Peter needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Peter wants to be loved
Peter wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Peter be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Peter creates
How Peter makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Peter creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Peter is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Peter is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Peter sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Peter Watts in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Peter Watts's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 25, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Peter Watts was born on January 25, 1958, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Peter Watts's birth date, January 25, 1958, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Watts' date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter Watts combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Peter Watts, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMoontrineUranus0.0° to 6.4° orb
Peter’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Peter’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.2° to 0.7° orb
Peter’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.7° orb
Peter’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 1.8° orb
Peter’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Peter’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Peter’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.9° to 4.8° orb
Peter’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
Peter’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 5.7° orb
Peter’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquareNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
Peter’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.2° to 5.8° orb
Peter’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 16°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Peter making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 20°18′ (moves 0.22° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°07′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Peter is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAries 14°41′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Peter feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Peter is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Peter is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 quintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter Watts, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from January 25, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Peter Watts, 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 Q983672, 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 Johan A, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Watts at Wikipedia, rifters.com, IMDb 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 Watts.
Quick answers about Peter Watts’s chart
- How old is Peter Watts?
- Peter Watts is 68 years old, born January 25, 1958 in Calgary, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Peter Watts?
- Peter Watts is an Aquarius: born January 25, 1958, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Peter Watts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 25, 1958 birth.
- What time was Peter Watts 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 is Peter Watts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 25, 1958 birth date.
- What is Peter Watts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 25, 1958 birth date.
- Where is Peter Watts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter Watts's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
