Katherine Ellison
Katherine Ellison (born August 19, 1957, Minnesota, United States), aged 69, is an American author. Ellison's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Katherine Ellison’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Katherine Ellison’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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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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 processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Katherine needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Katherine channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Katherine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Katherine 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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Katherine Ellison's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1957, 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.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Katherine Ellison was born on August 19, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Katherine Ellison's birth date, August 19, 1957, 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
- The tightest major aspect in Katherine Ellison's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Katherine Ellison combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Katherine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Katherine Ellison, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° 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.
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.1° to 7.6° orb
Katherine’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.1° to 0.8° orb
Katherine’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Katherine’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.8° orb
Katherine’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.2° to 3.2° orb
Katherine’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
Katherine’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
Katherine’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.6° to 7.2° orb
Katherine’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.0° to 7.6° orb
Katherine’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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 ℞Aquarius 14°10′ (moves 0.05° 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 Katherine making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 5°57′ (moves 0.37° 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. Katherine is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 13°03′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Katherine is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 20°11′ (moves 0.03° 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 Katherine feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 9°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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. Katherine 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. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.1°
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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 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.
Stellium in Virgo · Mercury, Venus, Mars, 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 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Katherine Ellison, 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 19, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Katherine Ellison, 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 Q6376364, 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 Ellison at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Ellison.
Quick answers about Katherine Ellison’s chart
- How old is Katherine Ellison?
- Katherine Ellison is 69 years old, born August 19, 1957 in Minnesota, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Katherine Ellison?
- Katherine Ellison is a Leo: born August 19, 1957, 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 Fire Rooster.
- What is Katherine Ellison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1957 birth.
- What time was Katherine Ellison 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 Ellison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 19, 1957 birth date.
- What is Katherine Ellison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 19, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Katherine Ellison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Katherine Ellison's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
