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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Helena
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.?
#363
US rank in 2025
~40,412
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
The SSA recorded 226 American girls named Helena in 1966: 636th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Helena’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Helena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Helena apart
Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and British English
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. Working below.
Where Helena sits
Six lines
Helena’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 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.
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 Helena Bonham Carter
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 Phecda, in Ursa Major, 85.8° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus 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.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 44% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Hampstead
Wikidata records Hampstead as Helena Bonham Carter's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Helena Bonham Carter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Helena's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.8° to 6.2° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.4° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 0°38′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Helena’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Helena’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.
- 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°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on May 26
- Miles Davis1926
- Sally Ride1951
- Lenny Kravitz1964
- Stevie Nicks1948
- Lauryn Hill1975
- Scott Disick1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Robert ShawBritish actor and writer
- Luigi PistilliItalian actor
- Gloria FosterAmerican actress
Other Gemini Horse charts
- Ben SinnottAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Chaney JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Kobe SandersAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Moses MoodyAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Andrew Motionpoet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
- Connie WillisAmerican science fiction writer
- Timothy ZahnAmerican fantasy and science fiction novelist
- Duncan JonesBritish film director
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Sophia BushAmerican actress
- Youssou N’DourSenegalese singer, composer and politician
- Nick CaveAustralian musician and singer
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Helena’s cards
Computed from May 26, 1966. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Helena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170428 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Helena Bonham Carter.
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.
- 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 is Helena Bonham Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Helena Bonham Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
