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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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.

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

The SSA recorded 218 American boys and 6 girls named Philip in 1896: 92nd among boys and 1,548th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Philip’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

22

Expression · building at scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 8: movement against ambition.

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

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

The record

What sets Philip apart

Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) 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 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.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Philip

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Philip

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Philip

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Philip

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Philip

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Philip

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Philip Showalter Hench

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Philip’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 66.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pittsburgh that night

Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Pittsburgh sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.

How unusual Philip's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Pluto · 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.

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Philip Showalter Hench in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Soft 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.

What Pisces means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Philip Showalter Hench was born on February 28, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Philip Showalter Hench's birth date, February 28, 1896, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Philip’s chart

Philip’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.9° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.5° orbSun in Pisces · 9°39′☉9°Moon in Virgo · 7°58′☽7°Mercury in Aquarius · 13°15′☿13°Venus in Aquarius · 6°13′♀6°Mars in Capricorn · 27°11′♂27°Jupiter in Leo · 0°06′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Scorpio · 19°06′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Scorpio · 24°30′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Gemini · 15°15′♆15°Pluto in Gemini · 10°46′♇10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.1° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.5° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.6° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 26°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 25°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 20°34′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 22°19′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Philip’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 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 semi-square Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°

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Philip’s cards

Computed from February 28, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235651 (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.

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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.
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 was Philip Showalter Hench's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Philip Showalter Hench's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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