Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn (born May 12, 1907, Hartford, United States; died 2003), was an American actress. Hepburn's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Katharine Hepburn’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Katharine Hepburn’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Katharine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Katharine, according to the stars
Core essence
Katharine is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Katharine is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Katharine wants to be loved
Katharine wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Katharine creates
How Katharine makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Katharine creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Katharine is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Katharine 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Katharine does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Katharine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Katharine sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Katharine Hepburn's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Katharine Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Katharine Hepburn's birth date, May 12, 1907, 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 Katharine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Katharine Hepburn's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Katharine Hepburn combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Katharine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Katharine Hepburn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.5° to 2.2° orb
Katharine’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 1.7° orb
Katharine’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars1.9° to 2.8° orb
Katharine’s affections grind against their drive.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.9° orb
Katharine’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 3.9° orb
Katharine’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.3° orb
Katharine’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.1° to 3.4° orb
Katharine’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
Katharine’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.5° to 4.4° orb
Katharine’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextilePluto3.8° to 5.0° orb
Katharine’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.9° to 5.8° orb
Katharine’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineMars4.7° to 5.4° orb
Katharine’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Katharine’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°11′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Katharine making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 4°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Katharine is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 14°43′ (moves 0.51° 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. Katharine is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 12°05′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Katharine feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Katharine guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron square Sun 2.6°
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°).
Katharine’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Katharine is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Katharine’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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Katharine Hepburn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Katharine’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Katharine Hepburn, 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
Katharine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56016, 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.
Portrait by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Katharine Hepburn at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Katharine Hepburn.
Quick answers about Katharine Hepburn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Katharine Hepburn?
- Katharine Hepburn was a Taurus: born May 12, 1907, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Katharine Hepburn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1907 birth.
- What time was Katharine Hepburn 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.
- How tall was Katharine Hepburn?
- Katharine Hepburn was 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Katharine Hepburn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1907 birth date.
- What was Katharine Hepburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1907 birth date.
- Where was Katharine Hepburn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Katharine Hepburn's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
