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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

Of the names registered in 1937, Vincent came 105th among boys and 2,562nd among girls, carried by 1,836 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vincent’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on V (4) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

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

Vincent’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Vincent apart

Brigitte Bardot (1934) and Naomi Watts (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Vincent sits

Six lines

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

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

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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 →

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

The sky over Auckland that night

Computed for 36.85°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Auckland at 9 p.m. that evening: Alnair of Grus, within 15.0° of the exact zenith.

Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 69 catalog stars above the horizon.

Auckland sits at 36.8°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 37% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Vincent's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · T-square onto Mars · 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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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.

What Libra means →

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.

What the Ox means →

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.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Vincent’s chart

Vincent’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Cancer depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn2.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.7° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.5° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.7° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.9° to 6.2° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.2° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°21′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Vincent’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Vincent’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Vincent’s cards

Computed from September 28, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vincent’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7931978 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vincent O'Sullivan.

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.
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 was Vincent O'Sullivan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Vincent O'Sullivan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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