Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937, Baltimore, United States), aged 89, is an American composer (born 1937). Glass is best known for La Belle et la Bête, Symphony No. 4 and Monsters of Grace. Glass's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, Kennedy Center Honors and Classic Brit Awards.
Philip Glass’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Philip
Philip Glass’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Philip in the U.S.?
#528
US rank in 2025
~345,173
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
In 1937, 3,162 American boys and 15 girls were registered Philip — 62nd among boys and 2,169th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Philip’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 7: drive against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Philip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
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 record
What sets Philip apart
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Philip, according to the stars
Core essence
Philip is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Philip 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, Philip cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Philip needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Philip, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Philip creates
How Philip 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. Philip 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: Philip is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Philip is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Philip runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Philip's birth date. Working below.
Where Philip sits
Six lines
Philip’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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Philip Glass
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Baltimore sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 72% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · No Fire planets
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 →Philip Glass at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Philip Glass's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Philip Glass was born on January 31, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Philip Glass's birth date, January 31, 1937, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Glass' date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- Philip Glass 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.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Libra 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.2° orb
Philip’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.2° to 0.5° orb
Philip’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 1.4° orb
Philip’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.1° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.5° to 1.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn6.5° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Philip’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 18°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°34′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°07′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.1°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°
Philip’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Philip’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Uranus, SunAn 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°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Philip
Other composers
- Bernard Rands1934
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich1939
- Mario Davidovsky1934
- Edward Kleban1939
- Roger Reynolds1934
- Hugh Masekela1939
Born in United States
- Frederic ForrestAmerican actor
- Joseph LelyveldAmerican journalist
- Mary Tyler MooreAmerican actress and television producer
- Robert CampbellAmerican architect and writer
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- Warren BeattyAmerican actor and filmmaker
More charts like Philip’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Carlos TevezArgentine association football player
- Michio KakuU.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
- Rosamund PikeEnglish actress
Born in Rat years
- C. K. WilliamsAmerican poet and critic
- Bill DedmanAmerican journalist
- Anthony R. DolanSpeechwriter to Ronald Reagan
Also born on January 31
- Justin Timberlake1981
- Kerry Washington1977
- Julián Alvarez2000
- Portia de Rossi1973
- Master KG1996
- Brooke Monk2003
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Manning MarableAmerican professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
- Howard SacklerAmerican screenwriter
- Arthur WalworthAmerican biographer
Other Aquarius Rat charts
- Jörn RausingSwedish businessman
- Alexander MamutRussian billionaire
- Joe LewisBritish businessman
- Sanjiv GoenkaChairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Kat DenningsAmerican actress
- HalseyAmerican singer-songwriter
- Ian ThorpeAustralian swimmer
- Gordon MooreAmerican businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Vincent du VigneaudAmerican biochemist
- Gertrude B. ElionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist
- Antoine Henri BecquerelFrench physicist
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Philip’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189729 (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 Pasquale Salerno, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Glass at Wikipedia, philipglass.com, IMDb, TikTok and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Philip Glass.
Quick answers about Philip Glass’s chart
- How old is Philip Glass?
- Philip Glass is 89 years old, born January 31, 1937 in Baltimore, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Philip Glass?
- Philip Glass is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Philip Glass's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1937 birth.
- What is Philip Glass's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Philip Glass's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Philip Glass's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Philip Glass's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
