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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Graham
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.
How common is the name Graham in the U.S.?
#120
US rank in 2025
~61,671
Americans share it since 1881
2025
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1949, Graham came 682nd, carried by 101 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Graham’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Graham’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Graham apart
Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Graham sits
Six lines
Graham’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Graham Swift
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Merak, in Ursa Major, 84.7° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 38% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Graham's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · No Water planets · 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
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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.5° to 4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 16°28′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°09′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Graham’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Graham’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Graham
Other writers
- Jorie Graham1950
- Ron Chernow1949
- Manning Marable1950
- Haruki Murakami1949
- Phil McGraw1950
- David Cay Johnston1948
Born in United Kingdom
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- Paul NurseNobel prize winning British biochemist
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on May 4
- Audrey Hepburn1929
- Fernandinho1985
- George Tupou V of Tonga1948
- Kurtis Conner1994
- PrestonPlayz1994
- Will Arnett1970
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Logan CostaCape Verdean association football player (born 2001)
- Marc PubillSpanish footballer
- Adrien RabiotFrench footballer (born 1995)
Other Taurus Ox charts
- Audrina PatridgeAmerican reality television star
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- Jeff TimmonsAmerican singer
- Chris ZylkaAmerican actor and model
Other Evergreen Architects
- Christine MbomaNamibian runner
- Cooper FlaggAmerican basketball player
- Hussain Al JassmiEmirati singer
- Kristen StewartAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 5
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Graham’s cards
Computed from May 4, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Graham’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q437718 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Graham Swift's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Graham Swift's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
