Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth (born August 10, 1930, Wingate, United Kingdom; died 2012), was an English novelist. Unsworth is best remembered for Sacred Hunger. Unsworth's honours include Booker Prize, Heinemann Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Barry Unsworth’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Barry
Barry Unsworth’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Barry in the U.S.?
#1520
US rank in 2025
~182,036
Americans share it since 1883
1962
its peak year
The SSA recorded 240 American boys named Barry in 1930: 370th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Barry apart
Kylie Jenner (1997) and Javier Zanetti (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Barry, according to the stars
Core essence
Barry is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Barry is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Barry creates
How Barry makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Barry creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Barry is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Barry 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Barry scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Barry's birth date. Working below.
Where Barry sits
Six lines
Barry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Barry Unsworth
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wingate on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Wingate that night
Computed for 54.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wingate at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 3.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Wingate sits at 54.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −35.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wingate on any night.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon down and 98% lit at full moon.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Barry Unsworth's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 10, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Barry Unsworth was born on August 10, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Barry Unsworth's birth date, August 10, 1930, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry Unsworth's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Barry Unsworth combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 3° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Barry’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Barry’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSuntrineUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
Barry’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileUranus2.8° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.2° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.7° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 12°19′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 19°34′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 10°00′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Eros square Sun 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.6°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.9°
Barry’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Barry’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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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Born in United Kingdom
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- Sean ConneryScottish actor
- Anita BrooknerEnglish novelist and art historian
- Michael SmithCanadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
More charts like Barry’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Riccardo TisciFashion Designer
- Bengaluru Venkata RamanIndian astrologer
- Anwar JibawiAmerican Internet personality
Born in Horse years
- Halle BerryAmerican actress
- John TravoltaAmerican actor
- Harrison FordAmerican actor
Also born on August 10
- Kylie Jenner1997
- Javier Zanetti1973
- Dan Caine1968
- Betsey Johnson1942
- Michelle Khare1992
- Antonio Banderas1960
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
- Austin StowellAmerican actor
- Dean-Charles ChapmanEnglish actor
Other Leo Horse charts
- Lawrence Watt-EvansAmerican writer
- Joe MayhewAmerican fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian
- Paul TaylorAmerican choreographer
- Pedro MiguelQatari association football player
Other Tidal Architects
- Peter WattsCanadian biologist and sci-fi author
- Becky ChambersAmerican author
- Octavia E. ButlerAmerican science fiction writer
- Gary K. WolfAmerican author
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Christian W.E. HaubGerman businessman (born 1964)
- Eduardo EurnekianArgentine businessman
- Isolde LiebherrSwiss entrepreneur
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Barry’s cards
Computed from August 10, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q715796 (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.
The same Barry Unsworth at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry Unsworth.
Quick answers about Barry Unsworth’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barry Unsworth?
- Barry Unsworth was a Leo: born August 10, 1930, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Barry Unsworth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 10, 1930 birth.
- What was Barry Unsworth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barry Unsworth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barry Unsworth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barry Unsworth's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
