Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham (born June 16, 1917, New York City, United States; died 2001), was an American publisher, editor and author. Graham's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Women's Hall of Fame.
Katharine Graham’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Katharine
Katharine Graham’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Katharine in the U.S.?
#4935
US rank in 2025
~41,241
Americans share it since 1880
1982
its peak year
Katharine ranked 330th in 1917, the year of this birth, with 357 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Katharine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on K (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Katharine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, 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 Katharine apart
Katharine Graham took the Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year in 1973, at 56.
The classrooms behind this chart: Vassar College and University of Chicago.
Cause of death is recorded as horse fall; the grave is at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Katharine Graham was born to Agnes E. Meyer and Eugene Meyer, married Phil Graham and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Katharine Graham under Graham family (publishing), Accidental deaths in Idaho and Madeira School alumni.
Tupac Shakur (1971) and Barbara McClintock (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Vassar College and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1998), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002) and National Women's Hall of Fame (2002)
- Cause of death
- horse fall
- Buried at
- Oak Hill Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Katharine, according to the stars
Core essence
Katharine 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. Katharine needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Katharine is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Katharine needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Katharine wants to be loved
Katharine 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. Katharine gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Katharine creates
How Katharine 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. Katharine 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: Katharine is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Katharine is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Katharine scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Katharine's birth date. Working below.
Where Katharine sits
Six lines
Katharine’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Katharine Graham
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Izar, in Boötes, 76.7° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Boise, Ada County in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Katharine Graham: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Katharine's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Katharine Graham's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Katharine Graham was born on June 16, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Katharine Graham's birth date, June 16, 1917, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Katharine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Katharine Graham's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Katharine Graham combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Katharine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Taurus 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.3° to 1.5° orb
Katharine’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.2° orb
Katharine’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.8° orb
Katharine’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Katharine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°23′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 10°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 9°42′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 24°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.3°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.5°
- Eros trine Venus 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.7°
Katharine’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Katharine’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
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Also born on June 16
- Tupac Shakur1971
- Barbara McClintock1902
- Joseph Schooling1995
- Camila Morrone1997
- Siya Kolisi1991
- Fish Leong1978
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Other Steadfast Explorers
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- Tina FeyAmerican actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
- Marc AnthonyAmerican singer
Famous people with Life Path 22
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Katharine’s cards
Computed from June 16, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Katharine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q435203 (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 File:Katharine Graham 927-9432 (cropped).jpg: Unknown / Anefo derivative work: Der Angemeldete, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Katharine Graham 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 Katharine Graham.
Quick answers about Katharine Graham’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Katharine Graham?
- Katharine Graham was a Gemini: born June 16, 1917, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Katharine Graham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1917 birth.
- What was Katharine Graham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Katharine Graham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Katharine Graham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Katharine Graham's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
