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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Penelope
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.
How common is the name Penelope in the U.S.?
#22
US rank in 2025
~109,533
Americans share it since 1880
2019
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1933, Penelope came 1,119th, carried by 40 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Penelope’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Penelope’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Penelope apart
Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Penelope sits
Six lines
Penelope’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 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.
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 Penelope Lively
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cairo 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 Cairo that night
Computed for 30.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cairo at 9 p.m. that evening: Asellus Australis of Cancer, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 30.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −60.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Cairo on any night.
The Moon, 63% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Penelope's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableJupitersextilePluto3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 11°03′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°34′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 29°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°32′ (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 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°
Penelope’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Penelope’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Penelope
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- Gordon S. Wood1933
- Omar Sharif1932
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- John McPhee1931
- David G. McCullough1933
- Gene Roberts1932
Born in Egypt
- Ahmed ZewailEgyptian chemist
- Mohamed SalahEgyptian association football player
- Mohamed ElBaradeiEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Amr DiabEgyptian singer, composer and actor
- Adel EmamEgyptian actor
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist
More charts like Penelope’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Ismaïla SarrSenegalese association football player (born 1998)
- Armando ObispoDutch-Curaçaoan footballer (born 1999)
- Édouard MendySenegalese-French footballer (born 1992)
Born in Rooster years
- Steve BuscemiAmerican actor
- Zachery Ty BryanAmerican actor
- Ben BarnesBritish actor and singer
Also born on March 17
- Nat King Cole1919
- Kurt Russell1951
- Hozier1990
- Billy Corgan1967
- Rob Kardashian1987
- Coco Austin1979
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Tony HawkAmerican professional skateboarder and actor
- Ben Higginsreality television star
- Kevin FederlineAmerican rapper and entertainer (born 1978)
Other Pisces Rooster charts
- Emmelie de ForestDanish singer
- Bobbi Kristina BrownAmerican television personality, daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
- Cruz Beckhamson of David and Victoria Beckham
- Kimberly GuilfoyleAmerican attorney and political campaign advisor (born 1969)
Other Tidal Seekers
- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer
- Michelle BacheletPresident of Chile from
- Anthony HopkinsWelsh–American actor and director
- Priyanka ChopraIndian actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Mandy MooreAmerican actress and singer (born 1984)
- Ricki LakeAmerican television host and actress (born 1968)
- The MizAmerican professional wrestler, actor and television personality (born 1980)
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Penelope’s cards
Computed from March 17, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Penelope’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262274 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Penelope Lively.
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.
- 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 is Penelope Lively's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Penelope Lively's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
