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Holly Marie Combs

Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973, San Diego, United States, 21:44), aged 52, is an American actress. Combs is best known for Picket Fences, Pretty Little Liars and Charmed. Combs's honours include Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress.

Holly Marie Combs’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Holly Marie Combs’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#416

US rank in 2025

~206,845

Americans share it since 1880

1983

its peak year

Holly ranked 54th among girls and 1,751st among boys in 1973, the year of this birth, with 5,114 American girls and 26 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Holly’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

9

Soul Urge · meaning

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Holly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Holly apart

Holly Marie Combs took the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress in 1993, at 20.

Training came by way of Professional Children's School.

The working life starts in 1985, at 12.

Holly Marie Combs was married David W. Donoho and Bryan Smith.

Julianne Moore (1960) and Ozzy Osbourne (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Professional Children's School
Awards
Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress (1993)
Nominated for
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Working from
1985
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Holly, according to the stars

Core essence

Holly is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Holly is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Holly is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Holly needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Holly wants to be loved

Holly wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Holly you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Holly creates

How Holly makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Holly creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Holly 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Holly is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Holly gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Holly's birth date. Working below.

Where Holly sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Holly

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Holly

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Holly

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Holly

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

PracticalVisionary
Holly

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Holly

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above San Diego at 21:44, Holly Marie Combs’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Diego that night

Computed for 32.72°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at San Diego at the birth hour: Algol of Perseus, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 32.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −57.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Diego on any night.

The Moon was at first quarter, 62% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 62° down.

What Holly's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

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Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Venus

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Holly Marie Combs in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Holly Marie Combs's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Holly Marie Combs was born on December 3, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Holly Marie Combs's birth date, December 3, 1973, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Holly’s chart

Holly’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.5° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbSun in Sagittarius · 11°56′ · house 5☉11°Moon in Pisces · 25°38′ · house 8☽25°Mercury in Scorpio · 23°26′ · house 4☿23°Venus in Capricorn · 27°09′ · house 6♀27°Mars in Aries · 25°45′ · house 9♂25°Jupiter in Aquarius · 8°51′ · house 7♃8°Saturn in Cancer · 2°47′ · house 12 · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Libra · 26°15′ · house 3♅26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 7°20′ · house 5♆7°Pluto in Libra · 6°28′ · house 3♇6°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 19°16′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 19°16′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 14°12′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 14°12′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarsoppositionUranusapplying · 0.5° orb

    Holly’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 0.9° orb

    Holly’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb

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

  • VenussquareMarsseparating · 1.4° orb

  • MoonsextileVenusapplying · 1.5° orb

  • JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb

  • MoontrineMercuryseparating · 2.2° orb

  • JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 2.4° orb

  • SunsextileJupiterseparating · 3.1° orb

  • MercurysextileVenusapplying · 3.7° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 3.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°38′ · House 9

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°43′ · House 6

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 21°34′ · House 5

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°04′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°19′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.4°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.3°
  • Eros trine Ascendant 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Ascendant 2.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 2.7°

Holly’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter10.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Holly’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Uranus, 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.

  • Moon semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Moon quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.7°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.2°
  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 2.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Mars 2.3°

Holly’s houses

Holly’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Sagittarius, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 4emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 6Uranus, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 3Mercuryhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 7Sun, Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 12Venuswork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Libra, house 3Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 5Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Aries, house 9Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 4emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Pisces, house 8Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Holly’s cards

Computed from December 3, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Holly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q162578 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Jesse Kornblum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Holly Marie Combs’s chart

How old is Holly Marie Combs?
Holly Marie Combs is 52 years old, born December 3, 1973 in San Diego, United States.
What zodiac sign is Holly Marie Combs?
Holly Marie Combs is a Sagittarius: born December 3, 1973, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What is Holly Marie Combs's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 3, 1973 birth.
What time was Holly Marie Combs born?
21:44 local time in San Diego, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Holly Marie Combs's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 21:44 birth time in San Diego, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Holly Marie Combs's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Holly Marie Combs's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Holly Marie Combs's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Holly Marie Combs's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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