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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Philip
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.
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.
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, 5 and 9: movement against 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
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 record
What sets Philip apart
Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) 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 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. Working below.
Where Philip sits
Six lines
Philip’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where 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.
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 Levine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 7.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 84% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMarssquareJupiter3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.1° to 7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°24′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°49′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°38′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°54′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
Philip’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Philip’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.5°
More people like Philip
Other writers
- Jimmy Breslin1928
- Poul Anderson1926
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929
- John Ashbery1927
- Philip K. Dick1928
- Hugh Hefner1926
Born in United States
- Edward AlbeeAmerican playwright
- Marion WilliamsAmerican gospel singer
- Sylvan FoxAmerican journalist
- Dominick ArgentoAmerican composer
- Fred RogersAmerican television personality
- Rosalynn CarterFirst Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
More charts like Philip’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Kobe BrownAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Dru SmithAmerican basketball player
- Andrew NembhardCanadian basketball player (born 2000)
Born in Rabbit years
- Thomas PidcockBritish cyclist
- Cameron GreenAustralian cricketer
- Cody GakpoDutch association football player (born 1999)
Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Faith Kipyegon1994
- Reneé Rapp2000
- Rauw Alejandro1993
- Chris Van Hollen1959
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Harold E. VarmusAmerican scientist
- John Franklin EndersAmerican medical researcher
- Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- Austin C. WehrweinAmerican reporter
- Sam RaganAmerican poet
- Francisco TrincãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Darian KinnardAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Curtis T. McMullenAmerican mathematician and Fields medallist
- Alan BakerEnglish mathematician
- Herbert C. BrownAmerican chemist
- Emily Greene BalchAmerican economist and writer
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Tracee Ellis RossAmerican actress
- YoungBoy Never Broke AgainAmerican rapper
- David GeffenAmerican businessman
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
Computed from January 10, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q531273 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Levine at Wikipedia 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 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.
- 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 was Philip Levine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Philip Levine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
