Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett (born Catherine Élise Blanchett; May 14, 1969, Melbourne, Australia), aged 57, is an Australian actor and producer. Notable films include The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Blanchett's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, César Award and Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
Cate Blanchett’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Cate
Cate Blanchett’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Cate in the U.S.?
#8978
US rank in 2025
~1,789
Americans share it since 1980
2008
its peak year
Cate is in US records from 1980, but 1969 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2008.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cate’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Catherine Élise Blanchett, not the name they published under.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) 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
Cate’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Cate apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama came in 1999, when Cate Blanchett was 30.
Cate Blanchett was taught at Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Cate Blanchett was 23 when the work began in 1992.
Cate Blanchett was married Andrew Upton.
Wikipedia files Cate Blanchett under Australian activists, Animal impersonators and Actresses from Melbourne.
Mark Zuckerberg (1984) and George Lucas (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School, National Institute of Dramatic Art and University of Melbourne
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (2005), Academy Award for Best Actress (2014) and César Award (2022)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1992
- Citizenship
- United States and Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 133
What the chart says
Cate, according to the stars
Core essence
Cate 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 Cate 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 Cate wants to be loved
Cate wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Cate creates
How Cate makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Cate creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Cate 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Cate is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Cate has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Cate's birth date. Working below.
Where Cate sits
Six lines
Cate’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Cate Blanchett
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melbourne 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 Melbourne that night
Computed for 37.81°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Muhlifain stood nearest the zenith over Melbourne at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Centaurus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 75 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 37.8°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon, 4% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Catherine Élise Blanchett
- Known as
- Cate Blanchett
- Born in
- Melbourne, Australia
- Lives in
- Crowborough
Wikidata records Crowborough as Cate Blanchett's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Cate Blanchett: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Cate's chart is
Chart pattern score
35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde · 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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Cate Blanchett's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 14, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Cate Blanchett's birth date, May 14, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Cate’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cate Blanchett's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Cate Blanchett combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Cate’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Aries or Taurus 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
stableSuntrinePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb
Cate’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineMars0.6° to 1.3° orb
Cate’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° orb
Cate’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Cate’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°34′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°19′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 28°17′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°38′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 6°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.1°
Cate’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Cate’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
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Also born on May 14
- Mark Zuckerberg1984
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- Miranda Cosgrove1993
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Other Taurus Rooster charts
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Other Steadfast Scholars
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Cate’s cards
Computed from May 14, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cate’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80966 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cate Blanchett at Wikipedia, 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 Cate Blanchett.
Quick answers about Cate Blanchett’s chart
- How old is Cate Blanchett?
- Cate Blanchett is 57 years old, born May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Cate Blanchett?
- Cate Blanchett is a Taurus: born May 14, 1969, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Cate Blanchett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 14, 1969 birth.
- What is Cate Blanchett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Cate Blanchett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Cate Blanchett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Cate Blanchett's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
