Philip W. Anderson
Philip W. Anderson (born December 13, 1923, Indianapolis, United States; died 2020), was an American physicist. Anderson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Dannie Heineman Prize.
Philip W. Anderson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Philip W. Anderson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Philip is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Philip you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Philip creates
How Philip makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Philip creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Philip is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Philip runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Philip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Philip W. Anderson in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Philip W. Anderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 13, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Philip W. Anderson was born on December 13, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Philip W. Anderson's birth date, December 13, 1923, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip W. Anderson's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Philip W. Anderson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Philip W. Anderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Philip’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Philip’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 0.9° orb
Philip’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.2° orb
Philip’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrinePluto2.1° orb
Philip’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto5.2° to 5.9° orb
Philip’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.3° to 6.8° orb
Philip’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.5° to 7.0° orb
Philip’s drive and discipline act as one.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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 ℞Aries 16°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Philip may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°20′ (moves 0.32° 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.
♡ ErosVirgo 14°18′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Philip is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaPisces 8°44′ (moves 0.22° 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 LilithTaurus 18°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Philip is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros trine Venus 0.0°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron square Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.5°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.6°
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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Philip is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip W. Anderson, 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 December 13, 1923, 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 Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Philip W. Anderson, 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 Q190770, 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.
The same Philip W. Anderson at Wikipedia.
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 W. Anderson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip W. Anderson?
- Philip W. Anderson was a Sagittarius: born December 13, 1923, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Philip W. Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 13, 1923 birth.
- What time was Philip W. Anderson 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 W. Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 13, 1923 birth date.
- What was Philip W. Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 13, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Philip W. Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip W. Anderson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
