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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (born May 15, 1890, Indian Creek, United States; died 1980), was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Porter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award and National Book Award.

Katherine Anne Porter’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Katherine Anne Porter’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Katherine in the U.S.?

#186

US rank in 2025

~652,750

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

In 1890, 900 American girls were registered Katherine — 59th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Katherine’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

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

Katherine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

The record

What sets Katherine apart

The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1931, when Katherine Anne Porter was 41.

Katherine Anne Porter was 30 when the work began in 1920.

Katherine Anne Porter lies at Texas.

Katherine Anne Porter was married Albert Erskine.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Brown County, Texas, Modernist writers and Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.

Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1931), National Book Award (1966) and O. Henry Award (1962)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Literature and National Book Award for Nonfiction
Working from
1920
Buried at
Texas
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
47

What the chart says

Katherine, according to the stars

Core essence

Katherine 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 Katherine 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Katherine runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Katherine needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Katherine wants to be loved

Katherine 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 Katherine like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Katherine creates

How Katherine makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Katherine creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Katherine is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Katherine is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Katherine has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Katherine's birth date. Working below.

Where Katherine sits

Six lines

Katherine’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Katherine

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katherine

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Katherine

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Katherine

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Katherine

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Katherine

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indian Creek on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Katherine’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 77.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Indian Creek that night

Computed for 31.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Indian Creek was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 77.1° up.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Indian Creek sits at 31.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Indian Creek, United States
Lived in
New York City · College Park

Wikidata records New York City and College Park as Katherine Anne Porter's home, against Indian Creek as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Silver Spring, Montgomery County in 1980.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Katherine Anne Porter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Katherine's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · No Water planets · Mars retrograde

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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Katherine Anne Porter in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Katherine Anne Porter's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1890, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Tiger

Courage before caution.

Katherine Anne Porter was born on May 15, 1890, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Katherine Anne Porter's birth date, May 15, 1890, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Katherine’s chart

Katherine’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.8° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 2.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSun in Taurus · 24°48′☉24°Moon in Aries · 17°12′☽17°Mercury in Gemini · 12°36′☿12°Venus in Gemini · 16°33′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 10°09′ · retrograde♂℞10°Jupiter in Aquarius · 11°48′♃11°Saturn in Leo · 27°16′♄27°Uranus in Libra · 23°27′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Gemini · 3°53′♆3°Pluto in Gemini · 6°08′♇6°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.7° to 0.9° orb

    Katherine’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars2.2° to 2.7° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars5.7° to 7.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.1° to 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Katherine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 18°32′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 27°20′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 2°07′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 27°15′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 2.5°

Katherine’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Katherine’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree 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 quintile Saturn 1.3°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°

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Katherine’s cards

Computed from May 15, 1890. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Katherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q236958 (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 Hulton Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Katherine Anne Porter at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Katherine Anne Porter’s chart

What zodiac sign was Katherine Anne Porter?
Katherine Anne Porter was a Taurus: born May 15, 1890, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Katherine Anne Porter's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1890 birth.
What was Katherine Anne Porter's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Katherine Anne Porter's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Katherine Anne Porter's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Katherine Anne Porter's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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