Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick (born December 16, 1928, Chicago, United States; died 1982), was an American science fiction author. Dick is best remembered for VALIS trilogy, Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb and A Scanner Darkly. Dick's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Tähtivaeltaja Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Philip K. Dick’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Philip
Philip K. Dick’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1928, Philip came 73rd among boys and 2,008th among girls, carried by 2,726 American boys and 19 girls.
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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Philip apart
Arthur C. Clarke (1917) and Zara Larsson (1997) 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 the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Philip is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Philip needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Philip needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Philip creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Philip is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Philip does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Algol, in Perseus, 87.4° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon down and 21% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Philip K. Dick's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Philip K. Dick was born on December 16, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Philip K. Dick's birth date, December 16, 1928, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip K. Dick's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Philip K. Dick combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° 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
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
Philip’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.6° to 1.0° orb
Philip’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.3° orb
Philip’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.9° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussextileUranus1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSunoppositionMars6.1° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.3° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Philip’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 11°11′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°00′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.8°
Philip’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Philip’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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Born in United States
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- Nancy OlsonAmerican actress
- Katherine HelmondAmerican actress
- Leon FleisherAmerican conductor and pianist
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
- Vera RubinAmerican astronomer and physicist
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Born in Dragon years
- John LennonBritish musician
- PeléBrazilian footballer
- Andy WarholAmerican artist, film director, and producer
Also born on December 16
- Arthur C. Clarke1917
- Zara Larsson1997
- Krysten Ritter1981
- Theo James1984
- Lei Jun1969
- Kai Cenat2001
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Paul HeyseGerman writer
- Peter AgreAmerican chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Eugene O'NeillAmerican playwright
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
- Vanessa HudgensAmerican actress and singer
- Michael BennetUnited States Senator from Colorado since 2009 (born 1964)
- Don CheadleAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Alix EarleAmerican social media personality
Other Gilded Healers
- Ronald RossBritish doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist
- Ivar GiæverNorwegian-American physicist
- Gerd BinnigGerman physicist (born 1947)
- Ei-ichi NegishiJapanese chemist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Felicity JonesBritish actress
- Jesse JamesAmerican entrepreneur and television personality
- Nancy KerriganAmerican figure skater (born 1969)
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Philip’s cards
Computed from December 16, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171091 (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 Arthur Knight (photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip K. Dick 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 Philip K. Dick.
Quick answers about Philip K. Dick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip K. Dick?
- Philip K. Dick was a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1928, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Philip K. Dick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1928 birth.
- What was Philip K. Dick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Philip K. Dick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Philip K. Dick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip K. Dick's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
