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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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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.
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Philip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Philip K. Dick in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Philip K. Dick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Philip’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.9° to 2.4° orb
Philip’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussextileUranus1.5° to 2.7° orb
Philip’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.3° orb
Philip’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
Philip’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.4° to 5.6° orb
Philip’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.5° to 6.5° orb
Philip’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunoppositionMars6.1° to 7.5° orb
Philip’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Philip building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 11°11′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Philip is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 15°00′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Philip is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Philip is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Philip leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Venus 0.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Philip’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Philip is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Philip’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip K. Dick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Philip’s cards
Every card is computed from December 16, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Philip K. Dick, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171091, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- 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 time was Philip K. Dick born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Philip K. Dick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 16, 1928 birth date.
- What was Philip K. Dick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 16, 1928 birth date.
- 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.
