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Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961, Evanston, United States), aged 65, is an American actress. McGovern's honours include Theatre World Award.

Elizabeth McGovern’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Elizabeth McGovern’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#17

US rank in 2025

~1,693,973

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

Elizabeth ranked 19th among girls and 941st among boys in 1961, the year of this birth, with 18,855 American girls and 66 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Elizabeth’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

The record

What sets Elizabeth apart

Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Elizabeth, according to the stars

Core essence

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

How Elizabeth wants to be loved

Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Elizabeth creates

How Elizabeth makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Elizabeth creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Elizabeth is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Elizabeth is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Elizabeth channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Elizabeth's birth date. Working below.

Where Elizabeth sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Elizabeth

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Elizabeth

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

PrivateExpressive
Elizabeth

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elizabeth

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

PracticalVisionary
Elizabeth

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Elizabeth

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Elizabeth McGovern

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Evanston 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 Evanston that night

Computed for 42.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Evanston at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.1° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.0°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 −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 32% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Elizabeth's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Elizabeth McGovern's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Elizabeth McGovern was born on July 18, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Elizabeth McGovern's birth date, July 18, 1961, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Elizabeth’s chart

Elizabeth’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.9° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Cancer · 25°48′☉25°Moon in Libra · 0°11′☽0°Mercury in Cancer · 5°38′☿5°Venus in Gemini · 12°19′♀12°Mars in Virgo · 11°48′♂11°Jupiter in Aquarius · 3°06′ · retrograde♃℞3°Saturn in Capricorn · 26°36′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Leo · 24°14′♅24°Neptune in Scorpio · 8°32′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Virgo · 6°28′♇6°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Elizabeth’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.3° to 0.8° orb

    Elizabeth’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.4° to 1.2° orb

    Elizabeth’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.0° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.5° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter6.8° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°00′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 15°47′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 12°11′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°45′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.4°
  • Eros sextile Mars 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.5°

Elizabeth’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Elizabeth’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.

  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.4°

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Elizabeth’s cards

Computed from July 18, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233868 (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 Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Elizabeth McGovern at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elizabeth McGovern.

Quick answers about Elizabeth McGovern’s chart

How old is Elizabeth McGovern?
Elizabeth McGovern is 65 years old, born July 18, 1961 in Evanston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Elizabeth McGovern?
Elizabeth McGovern is a Cancer: born July 18, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Elizabeth McGovern's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1961 birth.
What is Elizabeth McGovern's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Elizabeth McGovern's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Elizabeth McGovern's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Elizabeth McGovern's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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