Katherine Helmond
Katherine Helmond (born July 5, 1929, Galveston, United States; died 2019), was an American actress. Helmond is best remembered for Soap and Who's the Boss?. Helmond's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
Katherine Helmond’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Katherine
Katherine Helmond’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
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) × cardinal 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
In 1929, 3,016 American girls and 13 boys were registered Katherine — 84th among girls and 2,261st among boys 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets Katherine apart
Hernán Crespo (1975) and Susan Wojcicki (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Katherine, according to the stars
Core essence
Katherine feels the room before entering it. The core of Katherine is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Katherine, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Katherine wants to be loved
Katherine wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Katherine is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Katherine creates
How Katherine makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Katherine creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Katherine is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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: 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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Helmond
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Galveston 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 Galveston that night
Computed for 29.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Galveston was Izar, in Boötes, 87.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
Galveston sits at 29.3°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 −60.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
How unusual Katherine's chart is
Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Katherine Helmond's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 5, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Katherine Helmond was born on July 5, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Katherine Helmond's birth date, July 5, 1929, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Katherine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Katherine Helmond's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Katherine Helmond combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Katherine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 1.6° orb
Katherine’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Katherine’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
Katherine’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareMars3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.1° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Katherine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 2°23′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 13°12′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 3.0°
Katherine’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Katherine’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.6°
More people like Katherine
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- Gena Rowlands1930
- Halvar Björk1928
- Adile Naşit1930
- Jean Simmons1929
- Steve McQueen1930
Born in United States
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- Robert ColesAmerican psychiatrist
- Paul LauterburAmerican chemist
- John Edward MackAmerican psychiatrist
- Beverly SillsAmerican operatic soprano
- Barbara WaltersAmerican broadcast journalist
More charts like Katherine’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Itamar FrancoBrazilian politician
- Daniel RicciardoAustralian racing driver
- Margaret CourtAustralian tennis player
Born in Snake years
- James DonaldBritish actor
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
- Otto WernickeGerman actor
Also born on July 5
- Hernán Crespo1975
- Susan Wojcicki1968
- Shohei Ohtani1994
- Hedi Slimane1968
- Pauly D1980
- Edie Falco1963
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- David LuizBrazilian association football player
- Brittany MurphyAmerican actress and singer
- Bukayo SakaEnglish footballer
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Jacques PerrinFrench actor and film producer
- Chiwetel EjioforBritish actor (born 1977)
- Audrey FleurotFrench actress (1977)
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Carlos Sainz Jr.Spanish racing driver
- Elena RybakinaKazakhstani tennis player
- Siena AgudongAmerican actress
- Chloe MoriondoAmerican singer-songwriter and YouTuber
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jon Runyan Jr.American football guard
- Darian KinnardAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Isaiah LikelyAmerican football player (born 2000)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Katherine’s cards
Computed from July 5, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Katherine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179269 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Katherine Helmond at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Helmond.
Quick answers about Katherine Helmond’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Katherine Helmond?
- Katherine Helmond was a Cancer: born July 5, 1929, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Katherine Helmond's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 5, 1929 birth.
- What was Katherine Helmond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Katherine Helmond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Katherine Helmond's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Katherine Helmond's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
