Pat Barker
Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943, Thornaby-on-Tees, United Kingdom), aged 83, is a British writer. Barker is best known for Another World, Union Street and The Century's Daughter. Barker's honours include Booker Prize, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and honorary doctorate.
Pat Barker’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Pat
Pat Barker’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Pat in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~66,855
Americans share it since 1880
1941
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,840 American girls and 519 boys named Pat in 1943: 145th among girls and 267th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pat’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Pat’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Pat apart
Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Pat, according to the stars
Core essence
Pat is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Pat is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Pat wants to be loved
Pat wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Pat like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Pat creates
How Pat makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Pat creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Pat is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Pat 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Pat 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 Pat's birth date. Working below.
Where Pat sits
Six lines
Pat’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Pat Barker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Thornaby-on-Tees 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 Thornaby-on-Tees that night
Computed for 54.56°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over Thornaby-on-Tees at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Thornaby-on-Tees sits at 54.6°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 −35.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun -6° below the horizon, Moon up and 18% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Pat's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Pat Barker's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Pat Barker was born on May 8, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Pat Barker's birth date, May 8, 1943, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Pat’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pat Barker's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Pat Barker combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Pat’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.2° orb
Pat’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.2° orb
Pat’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb
Pat’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto1.4° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.4° to 5.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.9° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Pat’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 13°12′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°38′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°40′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°
Pat’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Pat’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, 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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°
More people like Pat
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- Gerrit Komrij1944
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- Carl Bernstein1944
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Born in United Kingdom
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- Mairead Maguirepeace activist (born 1944)
- Tim HuntBiochemist; Nobel laureate
- Jimmy PageEnglish guitarist
- George HarrisonEnglish musician and member of the Beatles
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More charts like Pat’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Harold UreyAmerican physical chemist
- Vicente AleixandreSpanish poet
- Donald J. CramAmerican chemist
Born in Goat years
- Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer (born 1991)
- Liev SchreiberAmerican actor
- Maria ShriverFirst Lady of California from 2003 to 2011
Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
- David Attenborough1926
- Pat Cummins1993
- Trisha Paytas1988
- Stephen Amell1981
- Olivia Culpo1992
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Helen MirrenBritish actress (born 1945)
- Vanessa LacheyFilipino actress
- Bristol Palindaughter of Sarah Palin
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Emily HenryAmerican novelist
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- Lance BassAmerican singer, dancer, actor, and film and television producer
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Other Radiant Guardians
- Annette BeningAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Clay AikenAmerican singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer
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- Ireland BaldwinAmerican fashion model
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Orson Scott CardAmerican science fiction novelist (born 1951)
- Caroline ThompsonAmerican writer
- Irvin KershnerAmerican film director
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Pat’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pat’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q61198 (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 summonedbyfells, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pat Barker at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pat Barker.
Quick answers about Pat Barker’s chart
- How old is Pat Barker?
- Pat Barker is 83 years old, born May 8, 1943 in Thornaby-on-Tees, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Pat Barker?
- Pat Barker is a Taurus: born May 8, 1943, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Pat Barker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1943 birth.
- What is Pat Barker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Pat Barker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Pat Barker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pat Barker's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
