Peter Weir
Peter Weir (born August 21, 1944, Sydney, Australia), aged 82, is an Australian film director (born 1944). Weir's honours include Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, BAFTA Award for Best Direction and Member of the Order of Australia.
Peter Weir’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Peter
Peter Weir’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
Of the names registered in 1944, Peter came 40th among boys and 1,856th among girls, carried by 6,340 American boys and 22 girls.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
2 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Weir took the Member of the Order of Australia in 1982, at 38.
Training came by way of Sydney Law School and University of Sydney.
The working life starts in 1968, at 24.
On the family side, Peter Weir was married Wendy Stites.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Peter Weir: University of Sydney alumni, Film directors from Sydney and Members of the Order of Australia.
Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Sydney Law School, University of Sydney and Vaucluse High School
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction (2004), Academy Honorary Award (2022) and European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (1998)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film and Academy Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1968
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Peter is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Peter needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Peter creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Peter is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Peter is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Weir
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sydney at 9 p.m. that evening: Nunki of Sagittarius, within 7.9° of the exact zenith.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 72 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
How unusual Peter's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bundled chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Peter Weir's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Peter Weir's birth date, August 21, 1944, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Weir's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter Weir combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Virgo 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 6.0° orb
Peter’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableVenussquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Peter’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
Peter’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.0° to 8.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 3.5° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 3.9° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 4.5° to 16.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 18°03′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo or Virgo during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 4°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°55′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.1°
Peter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Peter’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree 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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.9°
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- Robert Lewandowski1988
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Peter’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55424 (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 Piotr Drabik, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Peter Weir at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Weir.
Quick answers about Peter Weir’s chart
- How old is Peter Weir?
- Peter Weir is 82 years old, born August 21, 1944 in Sydney, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Peter Weir?
- Peter Weir is a Leo: born August 21, 1944, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Peter Weir's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1944 birth.
- What is Peter Weir's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Peter Weir's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Peter Weir's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Peter Weir's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
