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Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl (born November 24, 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, United States), aged 47, is an American actress. Notable films include Grey's Anatomy, 27 Dresses and Knocked Up. Heigl's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Katherine Heigl’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Katherine Heigl’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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

The SSA recorded 6,625 American girls and 26 boys named Katherine in 1978: 38th among girls and 1,944th among boys for the year.

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

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta

The record

What sets Katherine apart

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series came in 2007, when Katherine Heigl was 29.

The schooling ran through New Canaan High School.

Katherine Heigl was 14 when the work began in 1992.

The family line: married Josh Kelley.

Hande Erçel (1993) and Jeremiah Brent (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
New Canaan High School
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2007) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2007)
Working from
1992
Wikipedia editions
70

What the chart says

Katherine, according to the stars

Core essence

Katherine is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Katherine is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Katherine is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Katherine needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Katherine wants to be loved

Katherine wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Katherine even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Katherine creates

How Katherine makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Katherine creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Katherine is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Katherine is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katherine

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

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Katherine Heigl

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbia Hospital for Women 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 Columbia Hospital for Women that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Columbia Hospital for Women was Mirach, in Andromeda, 86.6° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.

Columbia Hospital for Women sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Columbia Hospital for Women at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Columbia Hospital for Women, United States
Lives in
Oakley

Wikidata records Oakley as Katherine Heigl'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 Heigl: 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

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart · Venus 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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If you only read one paragraph

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Katherine Heigl's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Katherine Heigl was born on November 24, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Katherine Heigl's birth date, November 24, 1978, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 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 16° to 28° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.4° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.4° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 2°04′☉2°Moon in Virgo · 22°11′☽22°Mercury in Sagittarius · 21°31′☿21°Venus in Scorpio · 7°38′ · retrograde♀℞7°Mars in Sagittarius · 16°31′♂16°Jupiter in Leo · 9°03′♃9°Saturn in Virgo · 13°07′♄13°Uranus in Scorpio · 17°40′♅17°Neptune in Sagittarius · 17°26′♆17°Pluto in Libra · 18°16′♇18°

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

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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

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Katherine’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.6° to 1.3° orb

    Katherine’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.3° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.7° to 5.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 6°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°00′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 14°23′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 16°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.6°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 3.0°

Katherine’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Katherine’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.2°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Katherine’s cards

Computed from November 24, 1978. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Katherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189554 (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 Photo from www.lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Katherine Heigl at Wikipedia, katherineheigl.info, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Katherine Heigl.

Quick answers about Katherine Heigl’s chart

How old is Katherine Heigl?
Katherine Heigl is 47 years old, born November 24, 1978 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
What zodiac sign is Katherine Heigl?
Katherine Heigl is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1978, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Katherine Heigl's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1978 birth.
What is Katherine Heigl's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Katherine Heigl's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Katherine Heigl's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Katherine Heigl's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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