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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Katherine sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Katherine Helmond, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
Katherine’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Katherine’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.5° to 4.7° orb
Katherine’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.1° to 4.5° orb
Katherine’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.2° to 5.1° orb
Katherine’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.4° to 5.1° orb
Katherine’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.6° to 5.8° orb
Katherine’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
Katherine’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.9° orb
Katherine’s affections and growth act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Katherine building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Katherine is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosVirgo 2°23′ (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.
⚕ HygieaAries 13°12′ (moves 0.15° 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 LilithCapricorn 5°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Katherine is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Katherine is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Katherine Helmond, 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 July 5, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Katherine Helmond, 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 Q179269, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- 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 time was Katherine Helmond 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 was Katherine Helmond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 5, 1929 birth date.
- What was Katherine Helmond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 5, 1929 birth date.
- 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.
