Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966, London, United Kingdom), aged 60, is a British actress. Carter is best known for Great Expectations, Ocean's 8 and Cinderella. Carter's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and International Emmy Award for Best Actress.
Helena Bonham Carter’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Helena Bonham Carter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Helena in the U.S.?
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~40,412
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Helena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Helena, according to the stars
Core essence
Helena is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Helena needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Helena needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Helena needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Helena wants to be loved
Helena wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Helena creates
How Helena makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Helena creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Helena 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Helena is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Helena 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 Helena's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Helena Bonham Carter's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Helena Bonham Carter was born on May 26, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Helena Bonham Carter's birth date, May 26, 1966, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Helena’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Helena Bonham Carter's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Helena Bonham Carter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Helena’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Helena Bonham Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° 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.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Helena’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.3° orb
Helena’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.4° to 1.6° orb
Helena’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
Helena’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.8° to 6.2° orb
Helena’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussextileNeptune4.9° orb
Helena’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Helena’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.4° to 6.6° orb
Helena’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 4.5° to 18.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Helena’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Helena absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Helena is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 0°38′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Helena loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°14′ (moves 0.11° 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. Helena is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Helena is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.5°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.7°
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°).
Helena’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Helena is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Helena’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Helena Bonham Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Helena’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1966, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Helena Bonham Carter, 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
Helena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170428, 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Helena Bonham Carter at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
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Quick answers about Helena Bonham Carter’s chart
- How old is Helena Bonham Carter?
- Helena Bonham Carter is 60 years old, born May 26, 1966 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Helena Bonham Carter?
- Helena Bonham Carter is a Gemini: born May 26, 1966, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Horse.
- What is Helena Bonham Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1966 birth.
- What time was Helena Bonham Carter 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 Helena Bonham Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1966 birth date.
- What is Helena Bonham Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1966 birth date.
- Where is Helena Bonham Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Helena Bonham Carter's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
