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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Katherine
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
Of the names registered in 1957, Katherine came 72nd among girls and 1,990th among boys, carried by 6,637 American girls and 17 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Katherine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Katherine apart
Katherine Ellison took the George Polk Award in 1985, at 28.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Katherine Ellison: Writers from Minnesota, People from San Anselmo, California and The Mercury News people.
Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1985) and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1986)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
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. Working below.
Where Katherine sits
Six lines
Katherine’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 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.
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 Katherine Ellison
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minnesota 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 Minnesota that night
Computed for 46.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Minnesota at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 46.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 36% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Minnesota, United States
- Lives in
- San Anselmo
Wikidata records San Anselmo as Katherine Ellison's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Katherine Ellison: 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
73 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mars · 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 →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° 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
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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.6° to 7.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.0° to 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 14°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 5°57′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 13°03′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 20°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 9°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.1°
Katherine’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Katherine’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
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Born in United States
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Fellow Leo suns
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on August 19
- Bill Clinton1946
- Coco Chanel1883
- Matthew Perry1969
- Satya Nadella1967
- Salem Al-Dawsari1991
- Melissa Fumero1982
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- William A. CaldwellAmerican journalist
- Ira GershwinAmerican lyricist
- Gerrit KomrijDutch writer
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Kon KnueppelAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Javonte GreenAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Cam ChristieAmerican basketball player
- Andre DrummondAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Other Tidal Architects
- Austin StowellAmerican actor
- Lucas HedgesAmerican actor
- Paul Walter HauserAmerican actor
- Jessie BuckleyIrish actress, singer and songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Paul PoiretFrench fashion designer
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Katherine’s cards
Computed from August 19, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Katherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6376364 (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.
The same Katherine Ellison at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Katherine Ellison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Katherine Ellison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
