Philip Levine
Philip Levine (born January 10, 1928, Detroit, United States; died 2015), was an American poet. Levine's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Philip Levine’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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Philip Levine’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
~345,173
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
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Philip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 6
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 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Philip is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Philip and watch them fall for you again.
How Philip creates
How Philip makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Philip creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Philip is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Philip has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Philip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Philip sits
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Philip’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Philip Levine's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Philip Levine was born on January 10, 1928, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Philip Levine's birth date, January 10, 1928, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Levine's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Philip Levine combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Philip Levine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.3° orb
Philip’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.9° to 2.1° orb
Philip’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
Philip’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.4° to 5.1° orb
Philip’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.8° to 4.3° orb
Philip’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.3° orb
Philip’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.4° orb
Philip’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.1° to 7.1° orb
Philip’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.2° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 6.0° to 18.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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 1°24′
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.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°49′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Philip caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°38′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Philip attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°54′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Philip is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Philip is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
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. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Philip is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip Levine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Philip’s cards
Every card is computed from January 10, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Philip Levine, 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 Q531273, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Levine at Wikipedia 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 Levine.
Quick answers about Philip Levine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip Levine?
- Philip Levine was a Capricorn: born January 10, 1928, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
- What was Philip Levine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1928 birth.
- What time was Philip Levine 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 Levine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 10, 1928 birth date.
- What was Philip Levine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 10, 1928 birth date.
- Where was Philip Levine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip Levine's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
