Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927, North, United States, 04:00; died 2008), was an American singer and actress. Kitt is best remembered for Batman and The Emperor's New Groove. Kitt's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Annie Award.
Eartha Kitt’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Eartha
Eartha Kitt’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Eartha in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~2,952
Americans share it since 1905
1955
its peak year
Eartha ranked 1,084th in 1927, the year of this birth, with 50 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eartha’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Eartha Mae Keith, not the name they published under.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eartha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 Eartha apart
The shelf Eartha Kitt is read from: The Emperor's New Groove and Batman.
The classrooms behind this chart: High School of Performing Arts and Lycée Français de Los Angeles.
The working life starts in 1943, at 16.
Cause of death is recorded as colorectal cancer; the grave is at Connecticut.
Eartha Kitt was married John W. McDonald.
Wikipedia's editors put Eartha Kitt under American cabaret singers, African-American women activists and Actresses from South Carolina.
Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Emperor's New Groove and Batman
- Educated at
- High School of Performing Arts and Lycée Français de Los Angeles
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Annie Award (2000)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- Working from
- 1943
- Cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- Buried at
- Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 81
What the chart says
Eartha, according to the stars
Core essence
Eartha is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Eartha is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Eartha 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 Eartha needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Eartha wants to be loved
Eartha wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Eartha be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Eartha creates
How Eartha makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Eartha creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Eartha is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Eartha is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Eartha leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Eartha is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Eartha's birth date. Working below.
Where Eartha sits
Six lines
Eartha’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Eartha Kitt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above North on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above North at 04:00, Eartha Kitt’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over North that night
Computed for 33.62°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at North was Zosma, in Leo, 77.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Eartha Mae Keith
- Known as
- Eartha Kitt
- Born in
- North, United States
The death is recorded at Weston, Fairfield County in 2008.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Eartha's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Treasurer 天府 in 亥
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Neptune · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Eartha Kitt's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Eartha Kitt's birth date, January 17, 1927, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Eartha’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Eartha Kitt's timed chart: Saturn in the 1st house and Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Eartha Kitt's timed chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Eartha Kitt combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Eartha’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsextileUranusapplying · 0.0° orb
Eartha’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
MoonoppositionMercuryseparating · 0.7° orb
Eartha’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 1.0° orb
Eartha’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupiteroppositionNeptuneseparating · 3.4° orb
VenussquareMarsapplying · 3.7° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
MoonconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.1° orb
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb
MercurytrineMarsseparating · 5.5° orb
SunoppositionMoonapplying · 6.5° orb
MoontrineUranusapplying · 6.5° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Eartha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 27°34′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°34′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°57′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 13°36′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°46′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Ascendant 0.5°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.0°
- Eros square Saturn 1.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.2°
Eartha’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Eartha’s chart
Yod onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.4°
Eartha’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 3 | Saturn | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 1 | Sun, Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 4 | Venus, Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 9 | Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 6 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 8 | Moon, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 2 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on January 17
- Muhammad Ali1942
- Michelle Obama1964
- Jim Carrey1962
- Betty White1922
- Zooey Deschanel1980
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Sander TangvikNorwegian association football goalkeeper (born 2002)
- Andreas SchjelderupNorwegian footballer (born 2004)
- Obed VargasMexican soccer player
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
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- Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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Other Gilded Strategists
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- Theodor W. HänschGerman physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
- Allvar GullstrandSwedish ophthalmologist
- George E. SmithNobel prize winning American physicist
Other Sagittarius risings with documented times
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- Frankie MunizAmerican actor (born 1985)
- Brian LittrellAmerican singer, member of the Backstreet Boys
- Breckin MeyerAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Patson DakaZambian association football player
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Eartha’s cards
Computed from January 17, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eartha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q222818 (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 Jyh-Lurn Chang @ Homo olympus, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eartha Kitt at Wikipedia, earthakitt.com, IMDb, 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 Eartha Kitt.
Quick answers about Eartha Kitt’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eartha Kitt?
- Eartha Kitt was a Capricorn: born January 17, 1927, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What was Eartha Kitt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1927 birth.
- What time was Eartha Kitt born?
- 04:00 local time in North, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Eartha Kitt's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 04:00 birth time in North, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Eartha Kitt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eartha Kitt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Eartha Kitt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eartha Kitt's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
