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Courtney Love

Courtney Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964, San Francisco, United States, 14:08), aged 62, is an American rock musician. Best-known releases include America's Sweetheart.

Courtney Love’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Courtney Love’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2335

US rank in 2025

~281,432

Americans share it since 1881

1990

its peak year

Courtney ranked 667th among girls and 644th among boys in 1964, the year of this birth, with 234 American girls and 146 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Courtney’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Courtney Michelle Harrison, not the name they published under.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on C (3) and closes on Y (7).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Courtney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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 Courtney apart

Tom Hanks (1956) and O. J. Simpson (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Courtney, according to the stars

Core essence

Courtney feels the room before entering it. The core of Courtney 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 Courtney, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Courtney is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Courtney needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Courtney wants to be loved

Courtney wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Courtney like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Courtney creates

How Courtney 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. Courtney 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: Courtney is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Courtney 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Courtney scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Courtney's birth date. Working below.

Where Courtney sits

Six lines

Courtney’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Courtney

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Courtney

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Courtney

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Courtney

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Courtney

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Courtney

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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

Courtney’s birth-sky starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 80.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 11° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 14:08, Courtney Love’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.77°N, at the documented birth time.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco at the birth hour, 80.4° above the horizon in Gemini.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -71° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Courtney Michelle Harrison
Known as
Courtney Love
Born in
San Francisco, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Courtney Love's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against San Francisco, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 98th of 153 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Antananarivo, Madagascar, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Courtney's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機 in 子

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Born on the New Moon · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde

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.

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Courtney Love at a glance

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Courtney Love's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Courtney Love was born on July 9, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Courtney Love's birth date, July 9, 1964, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Courtney’s chart

Courtney’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.7° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.5° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.7° orbSun in Cancer · 17°39′ · house 10☉17°Moon in Cancer · 23°16′ · house 10☽23°Mercury in Leo · 1°38′ · house 11☿1°Venus in Gemini · 20°25′ · house 9 · retrograde♀℞20°Mars in Gemini · 15°46′ · house 9♂15°Jupiter in Taurus · 19°35′ · house 8♃19°Saturn in Pisces · 4°33′ · house 6 · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Virgo · 7°18′ · house 12♅7°Neptune in Scorpio · 15°08′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Virgo · 12°10′ · house 12♇12°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 26°20′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 26°20′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 0°13′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 0°13′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLibra
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsextileJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb

    Courtney’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb

    Courtney’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 2.8° orb

    Courtney’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.0° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb

  • MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb

  • JupiteroppositionNeptuneseparating · 4.5° orb

  • VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.7° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 5.6° orb

  • SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Courtney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°39′ · House 6

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°12′ · House 3

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 29°06′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 22°59′ · House 9

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 19°43′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.7°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Sun 1.0°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.8°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.6°
  • Eros square Ascendant 2.8°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.9°

Courtney’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Courtney’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.

  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
  • Moon semi-square Uranus 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°

Courtney’s houses

Courtney’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Gemini, house 9emptyself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 12Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 8emptymind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Pisces, house 6emptyhome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 12emptycreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 2Saturnwork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Gemini, house 9emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 9Jupitershared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Leo, house 11Venus, Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Cancer, house 10Sun, Mooncareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Cancer, house 10Mercuryfriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Leo, house 11Uranus, Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Courtney’s family here

2 relatives of Courtney Love also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Courtney’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Courtney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q222071 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Courtney Love at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Courtney Love.

Quick answers about Courtney Love’s chart

How old is Courtney Love?
Courtney Love is 62 years old, born July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Courtney Love?
Courtney Love is a Cancer: born July 9, 1964, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What is Courtney Love's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1964 birth.
What time was Courtney Love born?
14:08 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Courtney Love's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 14:08 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Courtney Love's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Courtney Love's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Courtney Love's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 19°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Courtney Love's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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