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Catherine McCormack

Catherine McCormack (born April 3, 1972, Epsom, United Kingdom), aged 54, is a British actress.

Catherine McCormack’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Catherine McCormack’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Strategist

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#314

US rank in 2025

~669,611

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Catherine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Catherine, according to the stars

Core essence

Catherine leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Catherine is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Catherine creates

How Catherine makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Catherine builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Catherine is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Catherine 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Catherine scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Catherine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Catherine sits

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Catherine’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Catherine

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Catherine

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Catherine

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Catherine

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Catherine

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Catherine

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Catherine McCormack's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Catherine McCormack was born on April 3, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Catherine McCormack's birth date, April 3, 1972, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Catherine’s chart

Catherine’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Catherine McCormack, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.3° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.5° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2° orbSun in Aries · 13°47′13°Moon in Sagittarius · 4°14′Mercury in Aries · 8°26′ · retrogradeVenus in Taurus · 29°30′29°Mars in Gemini · 4°45′Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°36′Saturn in Gemini · 3°01′Uranus in Libra · 16°24′ · retrograde16°Neptune in Sagittarius · 5°03′ · retrogradePluto in Libra · 0°21′ · retrograde

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Catherine’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.1° orb

    Catherine’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Catherine’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Catherine’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 1.4° orb

    Catherine’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Catherine’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.5° to 2.0° orb

    Catherine’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Catherine’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb

    Catherine’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb

    Catherine’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.0° to 4.4° orb

    Catherine’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.0° to 3.8° orb

    Catherine’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.

Catherine’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.

  • ChironAries 13°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Catherine may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresLeo 9°45′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Catherine is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosAquarius 10°54′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Catherine is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • HygieaScorpio 13°14′ (moves 0.13° 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 Catherine carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Catherine is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.9°

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°).

Catherine’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. 1. Mars11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Catherine is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Catherine’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Catherine McCormack, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Catherine

Jennie Garth was born on April 3, 1972 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Catherine’s cards

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yang Water

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

yin Water

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Catherine McCormack, 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

Catherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q138327, 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 Simon Richards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Catherine McCormack 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Catherine McCormack.

Quick answers about Catherine McCormack’s chart

How old is Catherine McCormack?
Catherine McCormack is 54 years old, born April 3, 1972 in Epsom, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Catherine McCormack?
Catherine McCormack is an Aries: born April 3, 1972, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
What is Catherine McCormack's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1972 birth.
What time was Catherine McCormack 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.
How tall is Catherine McCormack?
Catherine McCormack is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Catherine McCormack's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 3, 1972 birth date.
What is Catherine McCormack's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 3, 1972 birth date.
Where is Catherine McCormack's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Catherine McCormack's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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