Graham Swift
Graham Swift (born May 4, 1949, London, United Kingdom), aged 77, is an English writer (born 1949). Swift is best known for Shuttlecock, Last Orders and Waterland. Swift's honours include Booker Prize, Hawthornden Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Graham Swift’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Graham Swift’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Graham’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Graham, according to the stars
Core essence
Graham is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Graham is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Graham wants to be loved
Graham 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 Graham is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Graham creates
How Graham 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. Graham 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: Graham 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Graham is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Graham is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Graham's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Graham sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Graham Swift's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Graham Swift was born on May 4, 1949, which falls in a Earth 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 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Graham Swift's birth date, May 4, 1949, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Graham’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Graham Swift's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Graham Swift combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Graham’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Graham Swift, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Graham’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.1° to 2.5° orb
Graham’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
Graham’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.2° to 1.8° orb
Graham’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° orb
Graham’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquarePluto3.4° to 4.7° orb
Graham’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.5° to 4.9° orb
Graham’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.6° to 4.3° orb
Graham’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.5° to 4.7° orb
Graham’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.5° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Graham’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 ℞Sagittarius 7°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Graham building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 16°28′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Graham is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°09′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Graham is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°60′ (moves 0.07° 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. Graham is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Graham carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.7°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.9°
- Eros square Sun 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres square Venus 1.8°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.3°
- Ceres square Sun 2.8°
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°).
Graham’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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Graham is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Graham’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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Graham Swift, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Graham’s cards
Every card is computed from May 4, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Graham Swift, 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
Graham’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q437718, 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 Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Graham Swift at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Graham Swift.
Quick answers about Graham Swift’s chart
- How old is Graham Swift?
- Graham Swift is 77 years old, born May 4, 1949 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Graham Swift?
- Graham Swift is a Taurus: born May 4, 1949, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Graham Swift's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1949 birth.
- What time was Graham Swift 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 is Graham Swift's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 4, 1949 birth date.
- What is Graham Swift's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 4, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Graham Swift's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Graham Swift's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
