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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Keri
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.
How common is the name Keri in the U.S.?
#7686
US rank in 2025
~32,386
Americans share it since 1946
1975
its peak year
The SSA recorded 11 American girls named Keri in 1947: 3,353rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Keri’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on I (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Keri’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Keri apart
Yuri Gagarin (1934) and Oscar Isaac (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Keri sits
Six lines
Keri’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Keri Hulme
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Christchurch 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 Christchurch that night
Computed for 43.53°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Christchurch was Naos, in Puppis, 83.9° up.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 43.5°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon, 94% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
How unusual Keri's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Earth planets
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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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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Libra 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.5° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 8°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 17°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 14°44′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°47′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Keri’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Keri’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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More charts like Keri’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Joanne WoodwardAmerican actress (born 1930)
- Robert RossenAmerican screenwriter, film director, and producer
- Mercedes RuehlAmerican actress
Born in Pig years
- Daniel De LuceAmerican journalist
- Danish SiddiquiIndian photojournalist
- Bill MarimowAmerican investigative reporter
Also born on March 9
- Yuri Gagarin1934
- Oscar Isaac1979
- Suga1993
- Khaby Lame2000
- Matthew Gray Gubler1980
- YG1990
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Thomas K. McCrawAmerican historian
- Eugene RobinsonAmerican journalist
- Forrest GanderPoet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956)
Other Pisces Pig charts
- Mario HezonjaCroatian basketball player (born 1995)
- Andrew WigginsCanadian basketball player (born 1995)
- Zach LaVineAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Josh HartAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
Other Radiant Healers
- Laysla De OliveiraCanadian actress
- Jack DavenportBritish actor
- Rutger HauerDutch actor
- Danny AielloAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Stacy KranitzAmerican photographer
- Joshua LoganAmerican stage and film director and writer
- Frances GoodrichAmerican writer
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Keri’s cards
Computed from March 9, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Keri’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q263613 (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 Philip Tremewan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Keri Hulme at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Keri Hulme's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Keri Hulme's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
