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Vincent O'Sullivan

Vincent O'Sullivan (born September 28, 1937, Auckland, New Zealand; died 2024), was a New Zealand writer. O'Sullivan served as New Zealand Poet Laureate. O'Sullivan's honours include Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and honorary doctor of the University of Auckland.

Vincent O'Sullivan’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Vincent O'Sullivan’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Vincent in the U.S.?

#107

US rank in 2025

~364,716

Americans share it since 1880

1962

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Vincent’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Vincent, according to the stars

Core essence

Vincent makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Vincent is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Vincent is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Vincent needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Vincent wants to be loved

Vincent wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Vincent and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Vincent creates

How Vincent makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Vincent creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Vincent is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Vincent is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Vincent has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Vincent's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Vincent sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Vincent

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vincent

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

PrivateExpressive
Vincent

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vincent

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

PracticalVisionary
Vincent

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vincent

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 Vincent O'Sullivan

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

Vincent’s birth-night reference starAlnairblue-white · GrusAlnair, in Grus. A blue-white star, 75° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alnair →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 30.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Vincent O'Sullivan's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 28, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Vincent O'Sullivan was born on September 28, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Vincent O'Sullivan's birth date, September 28, 1937, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Vincent’s chart

Vincent’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Vincent O'Sullivan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.9° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.6° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.1° orbSun in Libra · 4°27′☉4°Moon in Cancer · 14°20′☽14°Mercury in Virgo · 16°53′☿16°Venus in Virgo · 3°26′♀3°Mars in Sagittarius · 28°25′♂28°Jupiter in Capricorn · 17°48′♃17°Saturn in Aries · 1°29′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Taurus · 13°05′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Virgo · 19°18′♆19°Pluto in Cancer · 29°53′♇29°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.6° to 1.2° orb

    Vincent’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune1.5° orb

    Vincent’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.6° orb

    Vincent’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 2.7° orb

    Vincent’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn2.4° to 3.5° orb

    Vincent’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.7° to 3.4° orb

    Vincent’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.5° to 4.2° orb

    Vincent’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrineMars4.7° to 5.3° orb

    Vincent’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareMars5.9° to 6.2° orb

    Vincent’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.2° orb

    Vincent’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Vincent’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 1°07′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Vincent is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°21′ (moves 0.05° 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. Vincent is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 3°40′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Vincent is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°08′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Vincent is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Vincent leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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 square Venus 0.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.3°
  • Chiron square Saturn 0.4°
  • Eros trine Sun 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.7°

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°).

Vincent’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. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Vincent is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Vincent’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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Sun, Saturn, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vincent O'Sullivan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Vincent’s cards

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The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♀ Ruled by Venus

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Vincent O'Sullivan, 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

Vincent’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7931978, 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.

Portrait by New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Vincent O'Sullivan at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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 Vincent O'Sullivan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Vincent O'Sullivan?
Vincent O'Sullivan was a Libra: born September 28, 1937, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
What was Vincent O'Sullivan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 28, 1937 birth.
What time was Vincent O'Sullivan 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 Vincent O'Sullivan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 28, 1937 birth date.
What was Vincent O'Sullivan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 28, 1937 birth date.
Where was Vincent O'Sullivan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Vincent O'Sullivan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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