Catherine McCormack
Catherine McCormack (born April 3, 1972, Epsom, United Kingdom), aged 54, is a British actress.
Catherine McCormack’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Catherine
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
The SSA recorded 4,686 American girls and 11 boys named Catherine in 1972: 65th among girls and 3,008th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Catherine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Catherine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Catherine apart
Study took Catherine McCormack to Oxford School of Drama.
Catherine McCormack was 22 when the work began in 1994.
Wikipedia files Catherine McCormack under Actresses from Epsom, Alumni of the Oxford School of Drama and English radio actresses.
Jennie Garth shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Oxford School of Drama
- Working from
- 1994
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
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. Working below.
Where Catherine sits
Six lines
Catherine’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Catherine McCormack
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Epsom 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 Epsom that night
Computed for 51.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Epsom at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 3.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Epsom sits at 51.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 79% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
How unusual Catherine's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · No Water planets
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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst 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.
What Aries means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Catherine McCormack was born on April 3, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Catherine McCormack's birth date, April 3, 1972, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Catherine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Catherine McCormack's date-only chart is Mars opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Catherine McCormack combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Catherine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.5° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.0° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.0° to 3.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°45′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°54′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 13°14′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.5°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.9°
Catherine’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Catherine’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
Born the same day as Catherine
Jennie Garth was born on April 3, 1972 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Epsom, at 51.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Catherine
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- Carmen Electra1972
- Jared Leto1971
- Jennifer Garner1972
- Amanda Peet1972
- Lou Romano1972
- Nicole Eggert1972
Born in United Kingdom
- Liam GallagherBritish singer
- Jane GoldmanEnglish screenwriter, author and producer (1970-)
- Idris ElbaBritish actor
- Christopher NolanEnglish and American filmmaker
- China MiévilleEnglish writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
- Samantha PowerIrish-American academic, author and diplomat
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Fellow Aries suns
- Abigail BreslinAmerican actress
- Marcia CrossAmerican actress
- Jamie ChungAmerican actress
Born in Rat years
- Lewis CapaldiScottish singer-songwriter
- Devin BookerAmerican basketball player
- Joshua CheptegeiUgandan athletics competitor
Also born on April 3
- Marlon Brando1924
- Jane Goodall1934
- Eddie Murphy1961
- Nigel Farage1964
- Cobie Smulders1982
- Amanda Bynes1986
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Keira KnightleyBritish actress
Other Aries Rat charts
- Dianne WiestAmerican actress
- Susanne BierDanish film director (born 1960)
- Alejandro AmenábarSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
- Alessio FigalliItalian mathematician (1984–)
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Tony KushnerAmerican playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Frederik ObermaierGerman journalist
- Peter BalakianArmenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
- David KertzerAmerican historian and anthropologist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jack VanceAmerican mystery and speculative fiction writer
- Kristine Kathryn RuschAmerican writer and editor
- Frank M. RobinsonAmerican science fiction writer
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Catherine’s cards
Computed from April 3, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Catherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q138327 (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 Simon Richards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Catherine McCormack 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Catherine McCormack's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
