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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Kate
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.
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
Kate ranked 616th in 1928, the year of this birth, with 131 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kate’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on K (2) 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
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
The record
What sets Kate apart
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Kate sits
Six lines
Kate’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Wilhelm
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toledo 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 Toledo that night
Computed for 41.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Toledo at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 4.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 73% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
How unusual Kate's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysquareUranus2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.1° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 14°46′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 10°38′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 27°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Kate’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Kate’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on June 8
- Tim Berners-Lee1955
- Kanye West1977
- Francis Crick1916
- Joan Rivers1933
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jock LandaleAustralian basketball player (born 1995)
- Julius RandleAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Moussa DiabatéFrench basketball player (born 2002)
Other Gemini Dragon charts
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- Kip S. ThorneAmerican physicist (born 1940)
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Kate’s cards
Computed from June 8, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kate’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260560 (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.
The same Kate Wilhelm at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Kate Wilhelm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kate Wilhelm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
