Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (born January 26, 1918, Terre Haute, United States; died 2009), was an American writer. Farmer is best remembered for Riverworld. Farmer's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award.
Philip José Farmer’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Philip
Philip José Farmer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
Philip ranked 71st among boys and 2,642nd among girls in 1918, the year of this birth, with 2,733 American boys and 13 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Philip’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
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
Paul Newman (1925) and Ellen DeGeneres (1958) 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.
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip 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 Philip be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Philip creates
How Philip makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Philip creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Philip is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Philip leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Philip fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Terre Haute 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 Terre Haute that night
Computed for 39.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Terre Haute at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.3° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Terre Haute on any night.
Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · Grand trine · Venus retrograde
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Philip José Farmer's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 26, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Philip José Farmer was born on January 26, 1918, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Philip José Farmer's birth date, January 26, 1918, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip José Farmer's date-only chart is Sun opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Philip José Farmer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Philip’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.1° to 1.2° orb
Philip’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Philip’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineMars2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.8° to 5.1° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto6.1° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Philip’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°47′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°19′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 29°48′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 19°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.2°
Philip’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Philip’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
Kite · Sun, Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.1°
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Also born on January 26
- Paul Newman1925
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- Andrew NembhardCanadian basketball player (born 2000)
- Nikola JovićSerbian basketball player (born 2003)
- Andre DrummondAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Other Aquarius Snake charts
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Other Tidal Scholars
- Richard RodgersAmerican composer of songs and Broadway musicals
- Leonard LevyAmerican historian
- Robert Lewis TaylorAmerican author
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Famous people with Life Path 1
- Puka NacuaAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Ji'Ayir BrownAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Eddy PineiroAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Philip’s cards
Computed from January 26, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296256 (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 Zacharias L.A. Nuninga, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip José Farmer at Wikipedia, pjfarmer.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Philip José Farmer.
Quick answers about Philip José Farmer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip José Farmer?
- Philip José Farmer was an Aquarius: born January 26, 1918, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Philip José Farmer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1918 birth.
- What was Philip José Farmer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Philip José Farmer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Philip José Farmer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip José Farmer's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
