Philip Roth
Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, United States; died 2018), was an American novelist. Roth's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Franz Kafka Prize and National Book Award.
Philip Roth’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Philip Roth’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Philip in the U.S.?
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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
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Philip is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Philip is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Philip needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Philip, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Philip creates
How Philip makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Philip builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Philip is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Philip channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Philip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Philip sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Philip Roth's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 19, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Philip Roth was born on March 19, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Philip Roth's birth date, March 19, 1933, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Roth's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Philip Roth combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Philip Roth, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Capricorn 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.
stableVenustrinePluto0.4° to 1.7° orb
Philip’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussquarePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Philip’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.9° orb
Philip’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
Philip’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
Philip’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 7.4° orb
Philip’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.3° to 17.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.4° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°44′ (moves 0.05° 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°57′ (moves 0.39° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 3°40′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Philip is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 29°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Philip carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Philip that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros trine Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.4°
- Eros square Mercury 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.5°
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. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Philip is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip Roth, 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 March 19, 1933, 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 Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Philip Roth, 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 Q187019, 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 Nancy Crampton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Roth 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.
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Quick answers about Philip Roth’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip Roth?
- Philip Roth was a Pisces: born March 19, 1933, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Philip Roth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 19, 1933 birth.
- What time was Philip Roth 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 Roth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the March 19, 1933 birth date.
- What was Philip Roth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 19, 1933 birth date.
- Where was Philip Roth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip Roth's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
