Kate Bush
Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush; July 30, 1958, Bexleyheath, United Kingdom), aged 68, is an English singer, pianist and songwriter. Bush is best known for Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill. Bush's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Ivor Novello Awards.
Kate Bush’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Kate
Kate Bush’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kate in the U.S.?
#522
US rank in 2025
~86,076
Americans share it since 1880
2007
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1958, Kate came 807th, carried by 156 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kate’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Catherine Bush, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kate’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Kate apart
What keeps Kate Bush in print: Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill.
London South East Colleges shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1975, at 17.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kate Bush: EMI Group artists, English rock keyboardists and British female karateka.
Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill
- Educated at
- London South East Colleges
- Instruments
- piano, guitar, cello and bass guitar
- Awards
- Ivor Novello Awards (2002), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2023) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2013)
- Nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1975
- Sport
- taekwondo
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Kate, according to the stars
Core essence
Kate is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Kate 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 Kate wants to be loved
Kate 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. Kate gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Kate creates
How Kate makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Kate creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Kate is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Kate 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Kate is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Kate's birth date. Working below.
Where Kate sits
Six lines
Kate’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Kate Bush
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bexleyheath 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 Bexleyheath that night
Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Bexleyheath at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bexleyheath on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 1° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Catherine Bush
- Known as
- Kate Bush
- Born in
- Bexleyheath, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kate Bush: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kate's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand cross
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Kate Bush's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Kate Bush was born on July 30, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Kate Bush's birth date, July 30, 1958, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Kate’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kate Bush's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Kate Bush combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Kate’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
stableSunsquareMars0.9° to 1.3° orb
Kate’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Kate’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.0° to 1.8° orb
Kate’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.4° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kate’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 20°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 2°22′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°32′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 11°24′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.2°
- Eros trine Sun 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.8°
Kate’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
6 major aspects
Configurations in Kate’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Neptune, SunAn 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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
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More charts like Kate’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Jean RenoSpanish-French actor
- Sophie OkonedoEnglish actress and narrator (born 1968)
- Michael BiehnAmerican actor
Born in Dog years
- Domenico DolceItalian fashion designer
- Bobi WineUgandan musician, activist, actor and politician
- CamiloColombian singer
Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Terry Crews1968
- Simon Baker1969
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Joanne WoodwardAmerican actress (born 1930)
- Rod SerlingAmerican screenwriter
- Asghar FarhadiIranian screenwriter and film director
Other Leo Dog charts
- Alex CooperAmerican podcast host
- Hakeem JeffriesAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Abbie CornishAustralian actress (1982-)
- Anthony AndersonAmerican actor (born 1970)
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Donald L. CoburnAmerican dramatist
- René DubosAmerican microbiologist
- Bill KellerAmerican journalist
- Manning MarableAmerican professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Caleb WilsonAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
- Milos UzanAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Mario HezonjaCroatian basketball player (born 1995)
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Kate’s cards
Computed from July 30, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kate’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q636 (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 Guido Harari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kate Bush at Wikipedia, katebush.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kate Bush.
Quick answers about Kate Bush’s chart
- How old is Kate Bush?
- Kate Bush is 68 years old, born July 30, 1958 in Bexleyheath, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Kate Bush?
- Kate Bush is a Leo: born July 30, 1958, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Kate Bush's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1958 birth.
- What is Kate Bush's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kate Bush's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kate Bush's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kate Bush's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
