Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively (born March 17, 1933, Cairo, Egypt), aged 93, is a British novelist (born 1933). Lively is best known for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Moon Tiger and According to Mark. Lively's honours include Booker Prize, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Carnegie Medal.
Penelope Lively’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Penelope Lively’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
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Americans share it since 1880
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Penelope’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Penelope, according to the stars
Core essence
Penelope feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Penelope 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.
How Penelope wants to be loved
Penelope wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Penelope, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Penelope creates
How Penelope makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Penelope creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Penelope is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Penelope is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Penelope channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Penelope'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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Penelope Lively in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Penelope Lively's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1933, 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.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Penelope Lively was born on March 17, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Penelope Lively's birth date, March 17, 1933, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Penelope’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Penelope Lively's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Penelope Lively combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Penelope’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Penelope Lively, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Penelope’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranussquarePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Penelope’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.4° orb
Penelope’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrinePluto3.3° to 4.6° orb
Penelope’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
Penelope’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSuntrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
Penelope’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 3.1° to 17.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.8° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Penelope’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Penelope building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 11°03′ (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: Penelope is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°34′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Penelope is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 29°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Penelope carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Penelope that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.7°
- Eros trine Mars 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Penelope’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. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Penelope 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 Penelope’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Penelope Lively, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Penelope’s cards
Every card is computed from March 17, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Penelope Lively, 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
Penelope’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262274, 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 Miyagawa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Penelope Lively at Wikipedia, penelopelively.co.uk, 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.
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Quick answers about Penelope Lively’s chart
- How old is Penelope Lively?
- Penelope Lively is 93 years old, born March 17, 1933 in Cairo, Egypt.
- What zodiac sign is Penelope Lively?
- Penelope Lively is a Pisces: born March 17, 1933, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster.
- What is Penelope Lively's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1933 birth.
- What time was Penelope Lively 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 is Penelope Lively's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 17, 1933 birth date.
- What is Penelope Lively's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 17, 1933 birth date.
- Where is Penelope Lively's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Penelope Lively's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
