Philip Showalter Hench
Philip Showalter Hench (born February 28, 1896, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1965), was an American physician. Hench's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
Philip Showalter Hench’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Philip Showalter Hench’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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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 quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Philip needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Philip creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Philip is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Philip does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Philip Showalter Hench's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1896, 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.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Philip Showalter Hench was born on February 28, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Philip Showalter Hench's birth date, February 28, 1896, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Showalter Hench's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Philip Showalter Hench combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Philip Showalter Hench, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° 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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.6° to 1.6° orb
Philip’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb
Philip’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb
Philip’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileUranus2.3° to 3.1° orb
Philip’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
Philip’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 5.2° orb
Philip’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.5° orb
Philip’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareNeptune5.1° to 6.1° orb
Philip’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.4° orb
Philip’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.5° to 6.2° orb
Philip’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.8° orb
Philip’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.6° orb
Philip’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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 ℞Libra 26°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Philip is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresAquarius 25°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Philip is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°34′ (moves 0.56° 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.
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°19′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Philip needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Philip is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 Mars 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip Showalter Hench, 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 February 28, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Philip Showalter Hench, 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 Q235651, 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.
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Quick answers about Philip Showalter Hench’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip Showalter Hench?
- Philip Showalter Hench was a Pisces: born February 28, 1896, 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 Fire Monkey.
- What was Philip Showalter Hench's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1896 birth.
- What time was Philip Showalter Hench 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 Showalter Hench's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 28, 1896 birth date.
- What was Philip Showalter Hench's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 28, 1896 birth date.
- Where was Philip Showalter Hench's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip Showalter Hench's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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