Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (born October 10, 1930, London, United Kingdom; died 2008), was a British playwright. Pinter is best remembered for The Room, The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter. Pinter's honours include BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay, Nobel Prize in Literature and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Harold Pinter’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Harold
Harold Pinter’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Harold in the U.S.?
#993
US rank in 2025
~554,280
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Harold ranked 18th among boys and 870th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 11,660 American boys and 68 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harold’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Harold apart
The shelf Harold Pinter is read from: The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party.
The classrooms behind this chart: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
The working life starts in 1947, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as liver cancer; the grave is at Kensal Green Cemetery.
On the family side, Harold Pinter was born to Frances Moskowitz and Jack Haim Pinter, married Antonia Fraser and Vivien Merchant and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Harold Pinter under British free speech activists, Booker authors' division and Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery.
The same date carries Yves Chauvin. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Awards
- Franz Kafka Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Literature (2005) and Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1973)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Tony Award for Best Play
- Working from
- 1947
- Cause of death
- liver cancer
- Buried at
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 113
What the chart says
Harold, according to the stars
Core essence
Harold makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Harold 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, Harold is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Harold needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Harold wants to be loved
Harold wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Harold even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Harold creates
How Harold makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Harold creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Harold 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 6 is the nurturer. Harold is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Harold does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Harold's birth date. Working below.
Where Harold sits
Six lines
Harold’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Harold Pinter
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 Alderamin, in Cepheus, 76.7° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
London sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
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 33° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Harold Pinter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Harold's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Harold Pinter's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Harold Pinter's birth date, October 10, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Harold’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harold Pinter's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Harold Pinter combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Harold’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Taurus 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.4° orb
Harold’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.2° orb
Harold’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Harold’s growth and depths act as one.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.5° to 6.0° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.6° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Harold’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°33′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 29°35′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 17°47′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 3.0°
Harold’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Harold’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Uranus, JupiterAn 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.0°
Born the same day as Harold
Yves Chauvin was born on October 10, 1930 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from London, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Harold’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41042 (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 Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harold Pinter at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harold Pinter.
Quick answers about Harold Pinter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harold Pinter?
- Harold Pinter was a Libra: born October 10, 1930, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Harold Pinter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1930 birth.
- What was Harold Pinter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Harold Pinter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Harold Pinter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harold Pinter's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
