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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 1880

1955

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Eartha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Eartha sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Eartha

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Eartha

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Eartha

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Eartha

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Eartha

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Eartha

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

Eartha Kitt's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Eartha Kitt's birth date, January 17, 1927, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Eartha’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 0.7° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.7° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.5° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 5.1° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 5.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 26°16′ · house 2☉26°Moon in Cancer · 19°46′ · house 8☽19°Mercury in Capricorn · 19°06′ · house 2☿19°Venus in Aquarius · 9°53′ · house 3♀9°Mars in Taurus · 13°38′ · house 6♂13°Jupiter in Aquarius · 29°45′ · house 3♃29°Saturn in Sagittarius · 4°50′ · house 1♄4°Uranus in Pisces · 26°17′ · house 4♅26°Neptune in Leo · 26°23′ · house 9 · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Cancer · 14°38′ · house 8 · retrograde♇℞14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSgr 6°27′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCGem 6°27′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCVir 18°47′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICPsc 18°47′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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AscendantSagittarius
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

    Eartha’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • VenussquareMarsapplying · 3.7° orb

    Eartha’s affections grind against their drive.

  • MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 4.5° orb

    Eartha’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MoonconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.1° orb

    Eartha’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

    Eartha’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MercurytrineMarsseparating · 5.5° orb

    Eartha’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SunoppositionMoonapplying · 6.5° orb

    Eartha’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • MoontrineUranusapplying · 6.5° orb

    Eartha’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.2° orb

    Eartha’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°34′ · House 5

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Eartha may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°34′ · House 1

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Eartha is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 5°57′ · House 4

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Eartha is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 13°36′ · House 11

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Eartha is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°46′ · House 10

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Eartha exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • 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°

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°).

Eartha’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ☽ Moon10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Eartha 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 Eartha’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • yod, the shape it makesYod 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 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.

  • 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

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.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 3Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 1Sun, Mercurymoney, possessions, self-worth
3AquariusUranus in Pisces, house 4Venus, Jupitermind, siblings, the local world
4PiscesNeptune in Leo, house 9Uranushome, family, roots
5AriesMars in Taurus, house 6emptycreativity, romance, play
6TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 3Marswork, habits, health
7GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CancerMoon in Cancer, house 8Moon, Plutoshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LeoSun in Capricorn, house 2Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 2emptycareer, reputation, public life
11LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 3emptyfriends, community, the future
12ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 8emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Eartha’s cards

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The Gilded Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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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 data comes from

Eartha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q222818, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Jyh-Lurn Chang @ Homo olympus, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
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 from the January 17, 1927 birth date.
What was Eartha Kitt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1927 birth time.
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.

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