Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933, Providence, United States; died 2023), was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. McCarthy is best remembered for Stella Maris, The Passenger and The Border Trilogy. McCarthy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Tähtivaeltaja Award.
Cormac McCarthy’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Cormac McCarthy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Cormac in the U.S.?
#1298
US rank in 2025
~3,698
Americans share it since 1880
2014
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Cormac’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Cormac, according to the stars
Core essence
Cormac feels the room before entering it. The core of Cormac is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Cormac, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Cormac wants to be loved
Cormac wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Cormac openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Cormac creates
How Cormac makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Cormac creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Cormac 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Cormac is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Cormac fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Cormac's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cormac McCarthy at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Cormac McCarthy's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Cormac McCarthy's birth date, July 20, 1933, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Cormac’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cormac McCarthy's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, 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/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Cormac McCarthy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Cormac’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Cormac McCarthy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Cormac’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.4° to 1.7° orb
Cormac’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Cormac’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.8° orb
Cormac’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
Cormac’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
Cormac’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineSaturn6.2° to 6.9° orb
Cormac’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.6° to 7.9° orb
Cormac’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileMarsorb from 4.6° to 5.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Cormac’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 2°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 Cormac turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 19°54′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Cormac looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 27°10′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Cormac attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°11′ (moves 0.10° 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 Cormac carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Cormac that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros trine Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.3°
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°).
Cormac’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Cormac is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Cormac’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Cormac McCarthy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Cormac’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Cormac McCarthy, 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
Cormac’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272610, 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 From dust jacket: "Photograph of Cormac McCarthy by David Styles", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cormac McCarthy at Wikipedia, cormacmccarthybooks.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Cormac McCarthy.
Quick answers about Cormac McCarthy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Cormac McCarthy?
- Cormac McCarthy was a Cancer: born July 20, 1933, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Cormac McCarthy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1933 birth.
- What time was Cormac McCarthy 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 was Cormac McCarthy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1933 birth date.
- What was Cormac McCarthy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1933 birth date.
- Where was Cormac McCarthy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Cormac McCarthy's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
