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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Philip
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.?
#528
US rank in 2025
~345,173
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
Philip ranked 70th among boys and 2,374th among girls in 1933, the year of this birth, with 2,530 American boys and 13 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Philip’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Philip apart
Philip Roth took the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998, at 65.
The classrooms behind this chart: Bucknell University and Weequahic High School.
The working life starts in 1950, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Bard College Cemetery.
Philip Roth was married Claire Bloom.
Wikipedia's editors put Philip Roth under Culture of Newark, New Jersey, James Fenimore Cooper Prize winners and Military personnel from Newark, New Jersey.
Bruce Willis (1955) and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bucknell University, Weequahic High School and Rutgers University
- Awards
- National Book Award (2002), Franz Kafka Prize (2001) and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1998)
- Nominated for
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature and National Book Award for Fiction
- Working from
- 1950
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Bard College Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 91
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. 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 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.
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 Roth
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newark 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 Newark that night
Computed for 40.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Newark was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 83.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 37% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newark, United States
- Lived in
- Newark · Warren
Wikidata records Newark and Warren as Philip Roth's home, Newark among them.
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Philip Roth: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Capricorn 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
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
stableJupitersextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 11°57′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 3°40′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 29°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Philip’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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Fellow Pisces suns
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Born in Rooster years
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Philip’s cards
Computed from March 19, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q187019 (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 Nancy Crampton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Roth 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 Roth.
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.
- 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 was Philip Roth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Philip Roth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
