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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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.
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Hilary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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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.
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Hilary Mantel in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Hilary Mantel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Hilary’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb
Hilary’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Hilary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.2° to 3.3° orb
Hilary’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.7° to 3.8° orb
Hilary’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb
Hilary’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 4.1° orb
Hilary’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.1° orb
Hilary’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
Hilary’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Hilary is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°04′ (moves 0.35° 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. Hilary is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosVirgo 23°50′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Hilary is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°28′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Hilary is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Hilary is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Hilary’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Hilary is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Hilary’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.
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 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 biquintile Saturn 0.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hilary Mantel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Hilary
Dean Parisot was born on July 6, 1952 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Hilary’s cards
Every card is computed from July 6, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Hilary Mantel, 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
Hilary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q465700, 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.
The same Hilary Mantel at Wikipedia, hilary-mantel.com, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Hilary Mantel 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 was Hilary Mantel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 6, 1952 birth date.
- What was Hilary Mantel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 6, 1952 birth date.
- 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.
