Kate Wilhelm
Kate Wilhelm (born June 8, 1928, Toledo, United States; died 2018), was an American science fiction writer. Wilhelm is best remembered for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. Wilhelm's honours include Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Kate Wilhelm’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Kate Wilhelm’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~86,076
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Kate’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Kate, according to the stars
Core essence
Kate is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Kate needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Kate needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Kate needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Kate wants to be loved
Kate wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Kate like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Kate creates
How Kate makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Kate creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Kate is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Kate is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Kate 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 Kate's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Kate Wilhelm in 15 seconds
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Kate Wilhelm's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Kate Wilhelm was born on June 8, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Kate Wilhelm's birth date, June 8, 1928, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Kate’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kate Wilhelm's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Kate Wilhelm combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Kate’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kate Wilhelm, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunsextileMars0.4° to 0.6° orb
Kate’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarssquarePluto0.8° to 1.5° orb
Kate’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb
Kate’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
Kate’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.9° to 3.4° orb
Kate’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.8° to 5.1° orb
Kate’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileUranus3.8° to 5.0° orb
Kate’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
Kate’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.1° orb
Kate’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 6.4° orb
Kate’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Kate’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 8°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 Kate building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 14°46′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Kate is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 10°38′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Kate is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 27°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Kate is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Kate is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 trine Mercury 0.5°
- Eros square Venus 0.7°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Ceres square Sun 2.8°
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°).
Kate’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Kate is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Kate’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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kate Wilhelm, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kate’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kate Wilhelm, 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
Kate’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260560, 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.
The same Kate Wilhelm at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Kate Wilhelm.
Quick answers about Kate Wilhelm’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kate Wilhelm?
- Kate Wilhelm was a Gemini: born June 8, 1928, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Kate Wilhelm's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1928 birth.
- What time was Kate Wilhelm 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 Kate Wilhelm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1928 birth date.
- What was Kate Wilhelm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1928 birth date.
- Where was Kate Wilhelm's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kate Wilhelm's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
