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Peter Carey

Peter Carey (born May 7, 1943, Bacchus Marsh, Australia), aged 83, is an Australian novelist (born 1943). Carey is best known for True History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda. Carey's honours include Booker Prize, Officer of the Order of Australia and Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Peter Carey’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Peter Carey’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Peter in the U.S.?

#187

US rank in 2025

~591,531

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

In 1943, 6,877 American boys and 17 girls were registered Peter — 39th among boys and 2,227th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Peter’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

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 Peter apart

Eva Perón (1919) and MrBeast (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Peter, according to the stars

Core essence

Peter 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 Peter 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Peter processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Peter needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Peter wants to be loved

Peter 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 Peter like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Peter creates

How Peter makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Peter creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Peter 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 2 is the peacemaker. Peter is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Peter 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 Peter's birth date. Working below.

Where Peter sits

Six lines

Peter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Peter

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Peter

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Peter

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Peter

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Peter

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Peter

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Peter Carey

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bacchus Marsh on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Peter’s birth-night reference starMuhlifainwhite · CentaurusMuhlifain, in Centaurus. A white star, 74.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Muhlifain →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 53.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bacchus Marsh that night

Computed for 37.67°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Muhlifain stood nearest the zenith over Bacchus Marsh at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.2° above the horizon in Centaurus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 78 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 37.7°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.

How unusual Peter'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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Peter Carey's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Peter Carey's birth date, May 7, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Peter’s chart

Peter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.8° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.1° orbSun in Taurus · 15°39′☉15°Moon in Gemini · 17°06′☽17°Mercury in Gemini · 4°36′☿4°Venus in Gemini · 24°55′♀24°Mars in Pisces · 14°49′♂14°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°44′♃19°Saturn in Gemini · 11°59′♄11°Uranus in Gemini · 3°31′♅3°Neptune in Virgo · 29°35′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 5°00′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.2° to 0.6° orb

    Peter’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 0.9° orb

    Peter’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.9° to 1.3° orb

    Peter’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.6° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn7.2° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Peter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 12°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 22°25′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 6°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 3.0°

Peter’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Peter’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

Peter’s cards

Computed from May 7, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313254 (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.

The same Peter Carey 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 Peter Carey.

Quick answers about Peter Carey’s chart

How old is Peter Carey?
Peter Carey is 83 years old, born May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Peter Carey?
Peter Carey is a Taurus: born May 7, 1943, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Peter Carey's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1943 birth.
What is Peter Carey's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Peter Carey's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Peter Carey'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 Peter Carey'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.

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