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Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957, Gibson City, United States), aged 69, is an American actress. McDormand's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Picture and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Frances McDormand’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Frances McDormand’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.

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

#318

US rank in 2025

~600,721

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Frances’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

33 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Frances, according to the stars

Core essence

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

The vibe

Underneath, Frances is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Frances needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Frances wants to be loved

Frances wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Frances gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Frances creates

How Frances makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Frances creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Frances 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Frances is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Frances fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Frances's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Frances sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Frances

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Frances

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

PrivateExpressive
Frances

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Frances

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

PracticalVisionary
Frances

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Frances

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

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Frances McDormand in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Frances McDormand's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Frances McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 33

Teaches by carrying everyone's load.

Frances McDormand's birth date, June 23, 1957, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.

What stands out in Frances’s chart

Frances’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Frances McDormand, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.7° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.1° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Cancer · 1°56′Moon in Taurus · 9°10′Mercury in Gemini · 19°36′19°Venus in Cancer · 20°33′20°Mars in Leo · 1°23′Jupiter in Virgo · 23°40′23°Saturn in Sagittarius · 9°28′ · retrogradeUranus in Leo · 5°06′Neptune in Libra · 29°54′ · retrograde29°Pluto in Leo · 28°24′28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.1° to 1.8° orb

    Frances’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.7° orb

    Frances’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.1° to 4.0° orb

    Frances’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 5.0° orb

    Frances’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.0° orb

    Frances’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Frances’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.2° orb

    Frances’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.8° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Frances’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironAquarius 16°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Frances making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresGemini 13°27′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Frances feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosCancer 21°29′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Frances is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • HygieaAries 14°25′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Frances feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • Black Moon LilithPisces 3°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Frances is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.2°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 2.7°

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°).

Frances’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus

  3. 3. Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Frances is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Frances’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Frances McDormand, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Frances’s cards

Every card is computed from June 23, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Fire

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Frances McDormand, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Frances’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204299, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Frances McDormand at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frances McDormand.

Quick answers about Frances McDormand’s chart

How old is Frances McDormand?
Frances McDormand is 69 years old, born June 23, 1957 in Gibson City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Frances McDormand?
Frances McDormand is a Cancer: born June 23, 1957, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
What is Frances McDormand's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1957 birth.
What time was Frances McDormand born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Frances McDormand's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1957 birth date.
What is Frances McDormand's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1957 birth date.
Where is Frances McDormand's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Frances McDormand's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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