
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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Your match with Katharine
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
Of the names registered in 1907, Katharine came 316th, carried by 122 American girls.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
Katharine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Katharine apart
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. 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 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.
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 Hepburn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hartford 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 Hartford that night
Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.8°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 Hartford at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
How unusual Katharine's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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 →Taurus Sun
Try 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.
What Taurus means →Fire Goat
Makes everything a bit more beautiful.
Katharine Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Thinks more than it says.
Katharine Hepburn's birth date, May 12, 1907, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.9° to 5.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.7° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°11′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 4°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 14°43′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 12°05′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Katharine’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Katharine’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.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
More people like Katharine
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- Kathryn McGuire1903
- Victor Borge1909
- Tom Helmore1904
- Dana Andrews1909
- Ray Bolger1904
Born in United States
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More charts like Katharine’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Gail SimmonsCanadian food writer
- Bob SagetAmerican stand-up comedian
- Sherri ShepherdAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
Born in Goat years
- Paul KeatingAustralian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
- Kourtney KardashianAmerican media personality, model and businesswoman
- Rose ByrneAustralian actress
Also born on May 12
- Rishi Sunak1980
- Dorothy Hodgkin1910
- George Carlin1937
- Rami Malek1981
- Marcelo Vieira1988
- Jonah Lomu1975
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Jerome RobbinsAmerican choreographer and director
- Mikhail BaryshnikovLatvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
- Nathan MilsteinAmerican musician
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Jaime KingAmerican actress and model
- Tim McGrawAmerican country singer and actor (born 1967)
- Kelly Rizzojournalist
- Lynne Spearsmother of Britney Spears
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Ashlyn HarrisAmerican soccer player
- Garrett HedlundAmerican actor
- Jenna JamesonAmerican pornographic actress
- Chris KleinAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Joe RootEngland cricketer
- Ryan GarciaAmerican boxer
- Harry Brookcricketer (born 1999)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Katharine’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Katharine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56016 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Katharine Hepburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.







