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Portrait of Frank McCourt

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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Frank sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Frank McCourt

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Frank McCourt was born on August 19, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Frank’s chart

Frank’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Frank McCourt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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.

  • 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

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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.7° to 2.8° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb

    Frank’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb

    Frank’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus3.9° to 5.0° orb

    Frank’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.5° orb

    Frank’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

    Frank’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.8° to 6.1° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.6° to 7.6° orb

    Frank’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 18°54′

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Frank building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

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

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Frank is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

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

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Frank wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Frank needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Frank at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Frank’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. ☉ 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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Frank 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 Frank’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.

  • 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 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.

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

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

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Frank’s cards

Every card is computed from August 19, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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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

No birth time is on public record for Frank McCourt, 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

Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q208869, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
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 time was Frank McCourt 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 was Frank McCourt's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 19, 1930 birth date.
What was Frank McCourt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 19, 1930 birth date.
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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