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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Cormac
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 1956
2014
its peak year
US records hold Cormac from 1956 onward, though not for 1933 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2014 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cormac’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cormac’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Cormac apart
Gregor Mendel (1822) and Gisele Bündchen (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Cormac sits
Six lines
Cormac’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Cormac McCarthy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Providence 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 Providence that night
Computed for 41.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Providence was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 73.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Providence sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Providence at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Cormac's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn6.2° to 6.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.6° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 2°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 19°54′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 27°10′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Cormac’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Cormac’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 0.3°
- 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°
More people like Cormac
Other writers
- Ted Morgan1932
- Mark Strand1934
- Penelope Lively1933
- Mary Oliver1935
- Linda Pastan1932
- N. Scott Momaday1934
Born in United States
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- Chuck GrassleyUnited States Senator from Iowa since 1981
- David G. McCulloughhistorian
- Marilyn HorneAmerican mezzo-soprano opera singer (born 1934)
- Steven WeinbergAmerican theoretical physicist
- Richard S. CastellanoAmerican actor
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on July 20
- Gregor Mendel1822
- Gisele Bündchen1980
- Carlos Santana1947
- Chris Cornell1964
- Ben Simmons1996
- Judy Greer1975
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Baylor ScheiermanAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Tyus JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Pat ConnaughtonAmerican baseball and basketball player
Other Cancer Rooster charts
- Robert Bruce MerrifieldAmerican biochemist
- Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon and biologist
- Tadeusz ReichsteinPolish-Swiss chemist
- John HopfieldAmerican scientist (born 1933)
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Count BasieAmerican jazz musician and composer
- Marilyn HorneAmerican mezzo-soprano opera singer (born 1934)
- Suzanne FarrellAmerican ballerina
- Jessye NormanAmerican opera singer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Herbert FeisAmerican historian
- Laura E. RichardsAmerican writer
- Ovie CarterAmerican photographer
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Cormac’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cormac’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272610 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Cormac McCarthy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Cormac McCarthy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
