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Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, Brooklyn, United States; died 2009), was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. McCourt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Rome Prize and honorary doctor of Syracuse University.

Frank McCourt’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Frank McCourt’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#514

US rank in 2025

~920,589

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1930, Frank came 13th among boys and 746th among girls, carried by 12,535 American boys and 88 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Frank’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Frank apart

What keeps Frank McCourt in print: Angela's Ashes.

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and New York University shaped the training.

Cause of death is recorded as melanoma; the grave is at Great Oak Cemetery.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Frank McCourt: People from Roxbury, Connecticut, Deaths from melanoma in New York (state) and Schoolteachers from New York (state).

Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Angela's Ashes
Educated at
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and New York University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1997), National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography (1996) and honorary doctor of Syracuse University (2007)
Cause of death
melanoma
Buried at
Great Oak Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
46

What the chart says

Frank, according to the stars

Core essence

Frank is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Frank is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Frank wants to be loved

Frank wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Frank gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Frank creates

How Frank makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Frank 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: Frank is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Frank is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

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

Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.

Where Frank sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Frank

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Frank

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

PrivateExpressive
Frank

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Frank

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

PracticalVisionary
Frank

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Frank

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Frank’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 82.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 19.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.7°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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 23% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Brooklyn, United States

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2009.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank McCourt: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Frank's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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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Frank McCourt at a glance

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Frank McCourt's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Frank McCourt was born on August 19, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Frank McCourt's birth date, August 19, 1930, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Frank’s chart

Frank’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.4° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.6° orbSun in Leo · 25°56′☉25°Moon in Gemini · 23°29′☽23°Mercury in Virgo · 22°23′☿22°Venus in Libra · 10°34′♀10°Mars in Gemini · 24°23′♂24°Jupiter in Cancer · 11°35′♃11°Saturn in Capricorn · 5°37′ · retrograde♄℞5°Uranus in Aries · 15°03′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Virgo · 3°02′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 20°07′♇20°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.5° orb

    Frank’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb

    Frank’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.4° to 1.7° orb

    Frank’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus3.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.8° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.6° to 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 18°54′

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 16°29′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 25°18′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 11°59′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Sun 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.9°

Frank’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Frank’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°

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Frank’s cards

Computed from August 19, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q208869 (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 David Shankbone derivative work: Entheta (talk), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Frank McCourt at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank McCourt.

Quick answers about Frank McCourt’s chart

What zodiac sign was Frank McCourt?
Frank McCourt was a Leo: born August 19, 1930, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Frank McCourt's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1930 birth.
What was Frank McCourt's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Frank McCourt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Frank McCourt's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Frank McCourt's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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