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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Philip of Greece and Denmark; June 10, 1921, Corfu, Greece; died 2021), was a Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021. Edinburgh held office as member of the House of Lords and Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh's honours include Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Order of Prince Henry and Legion of Honour.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh’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 Prince in the U.S.?

#447

US rank in 2025

~24,151

Americans share it since 1880

2019

its peak year

The SSA recorded 82 American boys and 9 girls named Prince in 1921: 732nd among boys and 3,615th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Prince’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Philip of Greece and Denmark, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Prince’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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 Prince apart

The Royal Victorian Chain came in 2007, when Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was 86.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was taught at Cheam School and Britannia Royal Naval College.

The record gives senility as the cause, and King George VI Memorial Chapel as the resting place.

On the family side, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born to Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, married Elizabeth II and raised 4 children.

Wikipedia files Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh under British people of Danish descent, Burials at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Deified men.

Judy Garland (1922) and Saul Bellow (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Cheam School, Britannia Royal Naval College and Gordonstoun
Awards
Royal Victorian Chain (2007) and Order of New Zealand (2012)
Cause of death
senility
Buried at
King George VI Memorial Chapel
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
French, German and English
Wikipedia editions
127

What the chart says

Prince, according to the stars

Core essence

Prince is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Prince needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Prince needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Prince needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Prince wants to be loved

Prince wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Prince is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Prince creates

How Prince 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. Prince 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: Prince 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Prince 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Prince scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Prince's birth date. Working below.

Where Prince sits

Six lines

Prince’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Prince

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Prince

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

PrivateExpressive
Prince

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Prince

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Prince

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Prince

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

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

Prince’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 13.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Corfu that night

Computed for 39.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Corfu at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Corfu sits at 39.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Corfu on any night.

The Moon, 27% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Philip of Greece and Denmark
Known as
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Born in
Corfu, Greece

The death is recorded at Windsor Castle, Windsor and Maidenhead in 2021.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Prince's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all

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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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 10, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born on June 10, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's birth date, June 10, 1921, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Prince’s chart

Prince’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.6° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.1° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.4° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Gemini · 18°57′☉18°Moon in Leo · 16°21′☽16°Mercury in Cancer · 13°07′☿13°Venus in Taurus · 5°26′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 24°19′♂24°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°45′♃10°Saturn in Virgo · 18°20′♄18°Uranus in Pisces · 9°38′♅9°Neptune in Leo · 11°37′♆11°Pluto in Cancer · 7°55′♇7°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.2° to 1.1° orb

    Prince’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Prince’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranustrinePluto1.7° orb

    Prince’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.9° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter5.0° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars5.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.7° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Prince’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 13°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 28°34′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 17°16′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 1°50′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 6°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.3°
  • Eros square Sun 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°

Prince’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Prince’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-sextile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.0°

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Prince’s cards

Computed from June 10, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Prince’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80976 (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 Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh’s chart

What zodiac sign was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a Gemini: born June 10, 1921, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 10, 1921 birth.
What was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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