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Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo (born August 12, 1964, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 62, is an American journalist. Boo's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, National Book Award and MacArthur Fellows Program.

Katherine Boo’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Katherine Boo’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Katherine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

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What the chart says

Katherine, according to the stars

Core essence

Katherine is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Katherine is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Katherine cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Katherine needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Katherine wants to be loved

Katherine 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. Katherine gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Katherine creates

How Katherine makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Katherine creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Katherine is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Katherine is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Katherine does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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

Where Katherine sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Katherine

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katherine

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

PrivateExpressive
Katherine

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Katherine

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

PracticalVisionary
Katherine

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Katherine

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Katherine Boo

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

Katherine’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Katherine Boo's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Katherine Boo was born on August 12, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Katherine Boo's birth date, August 12, 1964, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Katherine’s chart

Katherine’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Katherine Boo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.8° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.8° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.2° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Leo · 19°57′☉19°Moon in Libra · 21°51′☽21°Mercury in Virgo · 15°56′☿15°Venus in Cancer · 5°25′♀5°Mars in Cancer · 8°34′♂8°Jupiter in Taurus · 24°22′♃24°Saturn in Pisces · 2°34′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Virgo · 9°08′♅9°Neptune in Scorpio · 15°08′♆15°Pluto in Virgo · 13°08′♇13°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.3° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Katherine’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.1° orb

    Katherine’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.2° orb

    Katherine’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.1° orb

    Katherine’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb

    Katherine’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.0° orb

    Katherine’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.2° to 4.9° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb

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

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° to 6.4° orb

    Katherine’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Katherine’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 17°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Katherine absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°08′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Katherine is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosLeo or Virgo during this date

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Katherine loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 3°07′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Katherine is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Katherine leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.5°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 1.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.5°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 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°).

Katherine’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. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Katherine is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Katherine’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Katherine Boo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Katherine’s cards

Every card is computed from August 12, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Katherine Boo, 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

Katherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6376310, 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.

The same Katherine Boo at Wikipedia.

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 Katherine Boo.

Quick answers about Katherine Boo’s chart

How old is Katherine Boo?
Katherine Boo is 62 years old, born August 12, 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Katherine Boo?
Katherine Boo is a Leo: born August 12, 1964, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
What is Katherine Boo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1964 birth.
What time was Katherine Boo 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.
What is Katherine Boo's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 12, 1964 birth date.
What is Katherine Boo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 12, 1964 birth date.
Where is Katherine Boo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Katherine Boo's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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