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Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee (born March 25, 1984, Los Angeles, United States, 00:05), aged 42, is an American recording artist, singer and songwriter.

Katharine McPhee’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Katharine McPhee’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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

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

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green

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The record

What sets Katharine apart

Elton John (1947) and Aretha Franklin (1942) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Katharine is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Katharine is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Katharine needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Katharine wants to be loved

Katharine wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Katharine, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Katharine creates

How Katharine makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Katharine creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Katharine is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Katharine is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Katharine runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Katharine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Katharine sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Katharine

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katharine

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Katharine

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Katharine

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Katharine

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Katharine

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Katharine McPhee's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Katharine McPhee was born on March 25, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Katharine McPhee's birth date, March 25, 1984, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Katharine’s chart

Katharine’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 4° orbSun in Aries · 4°52′ · house 5☉4°Moon in Capricorn · 16°19′ · house 2☽16°Mercury in Aries · 20°21′ · house 5☿20°Venus in Pisces · 13°20′ · house 4♀13°Mars in Scorpio · 27°37′ · house 12♂27°Jupiter in Capricorn · 11°04′ · house 2♃11°Saturn in Scorpio · 15°39′ · house 12 · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Sagittarius · 13°32′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Capricorn · 1°24′ · house 2♆1°Pluto in Scorpio · 1°28′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞1°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSgr 20°07′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCGem 20°07′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLib 6°30′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAri 6°30′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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AscendantSagittarius
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb

    Katharine’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenussquareUranusapplying · 0.2° orb

    Katharine’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb

    Katharine’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenussextileJupiterseparating · 2.3° orb

    Katharine’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 2.3° orb

    Katharine’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MoonsextileVenusseparating · 3.0° orb

    Katharine’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.5° orb

    Katharine’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoonsquareMercuryapplying · 4.0° orb

    Katharine’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb

    Katharine’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MoonconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.3° orb

    Katharine’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • SunsquareJupiterapplying · 6.2° orb

    Katharine’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • MercurytrineUranusseparating · 6.8° orb

    Katharine’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 29°03′ · House 6

    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 Katharine building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresAries 3°23′ · House 5

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Katharine looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 26°49′ · House 1

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Katharine attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°48′ · House 3

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Katharine is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°39′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Katharine is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.9°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.0°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Katharine is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Moon, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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 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.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Mars 1.3°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°

Katharine’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1SagittariusJupiter in Capricorn, house 2Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 12Moon, Jupiter, Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 1emptymind, siblings, the local world
4PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 2Venushome, family, roots
5AriesMars in Scorpio, house 12Sun, Mercurycreativity, romance, play
6TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 4emptywork, habits, health
7GeminiMercury in Aries, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CancerMoon in Capricorn, house 2emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LeoSun in Aries, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10VirgoMercury in Aries, house 5emptycareer, reputation, public life
11LibraVenus in Pisces, house 4emptyfriends, community, the future
12ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 12Mars, Saturn, Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Katharine’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Katharine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229282, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Katharine McPhee at Wikipedia, katharinemcphee.net, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok 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.

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Quick answers about Katharine McPhee’s chart

How old is Katharine McPhee?
Katharine McPhee is 42 years old, born March 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Katharine McPhee?
Katharine McPhee is an Aries: born March 25, 1984, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
What is Katharine McPhee's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 25, 1984 birth.
What time was Katharine McPhee born?
00:05 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Katharine McPhee's rising sign?
Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 00:05 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Katharine McPhee's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 25, 1984 birth date.
What is Katharine McPhee's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 29°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 25, 1984 birth time.
Where is Katharine McPhee's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Katharine McPhee's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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