Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough (born June 1, 1937, Wellington, Australia, 19:30; died 2015), was an Australian author. McCullough is best remembered for The Thorn Birds. McCullough's honours include Officer of the Order of Australia and Australian National Living Treasure.
Colleen McCullough’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Colleen McCullough’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Colleen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Colleen, according to the stars
Core essence
Colleen is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Colleen needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Colleen is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Colleen needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Colleen wants to be loved
Colleen 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 Colleen creates
How Colleen 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. Colleen 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: Colleen is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Colleen is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Colleen runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Colleen'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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Colleen McCullough's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Colleen McCullough was born on June 1, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Colleen McCullough's birth date, June 1, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Colleen’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Colleen McCullough's timed chart: Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Colleen McCullough's timed chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Colleen McCullough combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Colleen’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
Colleen’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
VenussquarePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Colleen’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 1.2° orb
Colleen’s affections grind against their growth.
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 1.6° orb
Colleen’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
MoonsextileVenusseparating · 2.3° orb
Colleen’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 2.9° orb
Colleen’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarstrinePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb
Colleen’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
Colleen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.7° orb
Colleen’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 6.3° orb
Colleen’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 6.3° orb
Colleen’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.4° orb
Colleen’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 6.4° orb
Colleen’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Colleen’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°01′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Colleen turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAquarius 28°46′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Colleen is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 3°14′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Colleen is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°58′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Colleen is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°46′ · House 11
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. Colleen 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 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Moon 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.8°
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°).
Colleen’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Colleen 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 Colleen’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Moon quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
Colleen’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 4 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 5 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 9 | Moon | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 11 | Venus, Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 4 | Mercury, Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | Sun | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 3 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 6 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Colleen
Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Colleen’s cards
Every card is computed from June 1, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Colleen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q228801, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Colleen McCullough 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 Colleen McCullough’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Colleen McCullough?
- Colleen McCullough was a Gemini: born June 1, 1937, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- What was Colleen McCullough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 1, 1937 birth.
- What time was Colleen McCullough born?
- 19:30 local time in Wellington, Australia, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Colleen McCullough's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 19:30 birth time in Wellington, Australia (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Colleen McCullough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the June 1, 1937 birth date.
- What was Colleen McCullough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 1, 1937 birth time.
- Where was Colleen McCullough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Colleen McCullough's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
