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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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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
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Peter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt 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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Peter Carey's birth date, May 7, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Peter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Peter Carey'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.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Peter Carey combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Peter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Peter Carey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini 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.
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
Peter’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb
Peter’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
Peter’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
Peter’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareNeptune4.1° to 5.3° orb
Peter’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.6° to 5.2° orb
Peter’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb
Peter’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn7.2° to 7.6° orb
Peter’s mind and discipline act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Peter performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresTaurus 12°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Peter is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosGemini 22°25′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Peter is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Peter at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Peter guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Peter’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Peter is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Peter’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.
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 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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Peter Carey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Peter’s cards
Every card is computed from May 7, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Peter Carey, 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
Peter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313254, 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.
The same Peter Carey at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- 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 time was Peter Carey 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 Peter Carey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 7, 1943 birth date.
- What is Peter Carey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 7, 1943 birth date.
- 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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