Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio (born May 1, 1956, Mount Vernon, United States), aged 70, is an American cartoonist. Foglio's honours include Inkpot Award, Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist and Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.
Phil Foglio’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Phil
Phil Foglio’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Phil in the U.S.?
#8078
US rank in 2025
~20,108
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1956, Phil came 416th, carried by 335 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Phil’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Phil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Phil apart
Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Phil, according to the stars
Core essence
Phil is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Phil is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Phil wants to be loved
Phil wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Phil like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Phil creates
How Phil 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. Phil 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: Phil 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Phil is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Phil goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Phil's birth date. Working below.
Where Phil sits
Six lines
Phil’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Phil Foglio
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Mount Vernon at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.9°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 Mount Vernon at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 60% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Phil's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Phil Foglio's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Phil Foglio was born on May 1, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Phil Foglio's birth date, May 1, 1956, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Phil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Phil Foglio's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Phil Foglio combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Phil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.2° orb
Phil’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.2° orb
Phil’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars0.5° to 0.9° orb
Phil’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.8° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.3° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Phil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°27′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 5°35′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron square Sun 0.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.4°
Phil’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Phil’s chart
T-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
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More charts like Phil’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Mirra AndreevaRussian tennis player
- Glen HansardIrish musician and songwriter
- JoJo SiwaAmerican dancer, singer, actress, and YouTube personality
Born in Monkey years
- Sergey PonomarevRussian photojournalist (1980-)
- Jose Antonio VargasFilipino journalist, immigration activist
- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
Also born on May 1
- Charli D'Amelio2004
- Jamie Dornan1982
- Rema2000
- Chet Holmgren2002
- Victoria Monét1989
- Freida McFadden1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Nadya Sulemanmother of octuplets
- Isaiah WashingtonAmerican actor (born 1963)
- Jordyn WoodsAfrican-American model and entrepreneur
Other Taurus Monkey charts
- Michael ColgrassCanadian musician and composer
- James Ford RhodesUnited States historian
- George OppenAmerican poet
- Joan D. HedrickAmerican historian
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Corey BohanAustralian BMX rider
- Maksim ChmerkovskiyUkrainian-American Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor
- Andy DickAmerican comedian and actor
- Frankie Delgadomexican-American actor and producer
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Charles J. PedersenAmerican organic chemist
- Georg von BékésyHungarian physicist
- Joseph L. GoldsteinAmerican biochemist
From the journal: What does Elon Musk say about astrology? · The modern vs traditional rulers debate
Phil’s cards
Computed from May 1, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Phil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1131539 (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 GRuban, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Phil Foglio at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Phil Foglio.
Quick answers about Phil Foglio’s chart
- How old is Phil Foglio?
- Phil Foglio is 70 years old, born May 1, 1956 in Mount Vernon, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Phil Foglio?
- Phil Foglio is a Taurus: born May 1, 1956, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Phil Foglio's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1956 birth.
- What is Phil Foglio's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Phil Foglio's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Phil Foglio's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Phil Foglio's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
