Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel (born July 6, 1952, Glossop, United Kingdom; died 2022), was a British writer. Mantel is best remembered for Every Day is Mother's Day, Bring Up the Bodies and Wolf Hall. Mantel's honours include Booker Prize, Hawthornden Prize and Bodley Medal.
Hilary Mantel’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Hilary
Hilary Mantel’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Hilary in the U.S.?
#5301
US rank in 2025
~26,368
Americans share it since 1882
1990
its peak year
The SSA recorded 100 American girls and 27 boys named Hilary in 1952: 926th among girls and 1,474th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hilary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hilary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Hilary apart
The record Hilary Mantel is measured by: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and Every Day is Mother's Day.
The schooling ran through University of Sheffield and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hilary Mantel was 33 when the work began in 1985.
Wikipedia files Hilary Mantel under English women historical novelists, Costa Book Award winners and British women literary critics.
Dean Parisot shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and Every Day is Mother's Day
- Educated at
- University of Sheffield and London School of Economics and Political Science
- Awards
- Booker Prize (2009), Hawthornden Prize (1996) and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2014)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play and Booker Prize
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Hilary, according to the stars
Core essence
Hilary feels the room before entering it. The core of Hilary is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Hilary, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Hilary wants to be loved
Hilary wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Hilary gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Hilary creates
How Hilary makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hilary 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: Hilary is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Hilary is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Hilary runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Hilary's birth date. Working below.
Where Hilary sits
Six lines
Hilary’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glossop 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 Glossop that night
Computed for 53.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Glossop was Edasich, in Draco, 82.7° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 53.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Glossop at all: they sit past the −36.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -4° below the horizon, Moon down and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Glossop, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Exeter in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hilary Mantel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hilary's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Hilary Mantel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Hilary Mantel was born on July 6, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Hilary Mantel's birth date, July 6, 1952, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Hilary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hilary Mantel's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hilary Mantel 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.
Hilary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Hilary’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Hilary’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Hilary’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Hilary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°04′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 23°50′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°28′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
Hilary’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus
Configurations in Hilary’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.0°
Born the same day as Hilary
Dean Parisot was born on July 6, 1952 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 Glossop, at 53.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Cancer Dragon charts
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Other Tidal Diplomats
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Hilary’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hilary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q465700 (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.
The same Hilary Mantel at Wikipedia, hilary-mantel.com, 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 Hilary Mantel.
Quick answers about Hilary Mantel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hilary Mantel?
- Hilary Mantel was a Cancer: born July 6, 1952, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Hilary Mantel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1952 birth.
- What was Hilary Mantel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hilary Mantel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hilary Mantel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hilary Mantel's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
