Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme (born March 9, 1947, Christchurch, New Zealand; died 2021), was a New Zealand writer. Hulme is best remembered for The Bone People. Hulme's honours include Booker Prize, Robert Burns Fellowship and Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award.
Keri Hulme’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Keri Hulme’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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~32,386
Americans share it since 1880
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Keri’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Keri, according to the stars
Core essence
Keri feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Keri is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Keri cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Keri needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Keri wants to be loved
Keri wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Keri be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Keri creates
How Keri makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Keri creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Keri is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Keri 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Keri slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Keri's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Keri Hulme's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 9, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Keri Hulme was born on March 9, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Keri Hulme's birth date, March 9, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Keri’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Keri Hulme's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Keri Hulme combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Keri’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Keri Hulme, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Libra 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.1° orb
Keri’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Keri’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Keri’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.2° to 2.4° orb
Keri’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Keri’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.0° to 5.1° orb
Keri’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° to 6.3° orb
Keri’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.5° to 6.3° orb
Keri’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.5° to 7.7° orb
Keri’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Keri’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 ℞Scorpio 8°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Keri carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 17°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Keri is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 14°44′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Keri attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°47′ (moves 0.29° 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. Keri is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Keri is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 conjunction Mercury 0.0°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
- Eros square Mercury 2.7°
- Eros square Sun 2.8°
- Chiron square Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Keri’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. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Keri is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Keri’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 Pisces · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Keri Hulme, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Keri’s cards
Every card is computed from March 9, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Keri Hulme, 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
Keri’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q263613, 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 Philip Tremewan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Keri Hulme at Wikipedia.
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 Keri Hulme.
Quick answers about Keri Hulme’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Keri Hulme?
- Keri Hulme was a Pisces: born March 9, 1947, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
- What was Keri Hulme's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 9, 1947 birth.
- What time was Keri Hulme 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 Keri Hulme's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the March 9, 1947 birth date.
- What was Keri Hulme's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 9, 1947 birth date.
- Where was Keri Hulme's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Keri Hulme's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
