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Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1960, Oak Park, United States), aged 65, is an American actress and comedian. Griffin's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program and GLAAD Vanguard Award.

Kathy Griffin’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Kathy Griffin’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Kathy in the U.S.?

#3274

US rank in 2025

~334,870

Americans share it since 1910

1958

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1960, Kathy came 21st among girls and 1,220th among boys, carried by 18,478 American girls and 42 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kathy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on K (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Kathy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Kathy apart

Kathy Griffin took the GLAAD Vanguard Award in 2009, at 49.

Training came by way of Triton College and Oak Park and River Forest High School.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kathy Griffin: Actresses from Oak Park, Illinois, Comedians from Chicago and CNN people.

The same date carries Tilda Swinton. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Triton College, Oak Park and River Forest High School and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Awards
GLAAD Vanguard Award (2009)
Working from
1965
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
35

What the chart says

Kathy, according to the stars

Core essence

Kathy does not do surface. The core of Kathy is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Kathy is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Kathy wants to be loved

Kathy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Kathy and watch them fall for you again.

How Kathy creates

How Kathy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Kathy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Kathy is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Kathy is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Kathy does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Kathy's birth date. Working below.

Where Kathy sits

Six lines

Kathy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Kathy

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kathy

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kathy

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kathy

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Kathy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kathy

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kathy Griffin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oak Park on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Kathy’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 77° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 36.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oak Park that night

Computed for 41.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Oak Park at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 13.0° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Oak Park on any night.

The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Oak Park, United States
Lives in
Bel Air

Wikidata records Bel Air as Kathy Griffin'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 Kathy Griffin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kathy's chart is

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Uranus · 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.

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Kathy Griffin at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Kathy Griffin's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Kathy Griffin was born on November 4, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Kathy Griffin's birth date, November 4, 1960, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Kathy’s chart

Kathy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.1° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.2° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 4.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 12°19′☉12°Moon in Taurus · 27°00′☽26°Mercury in Scorpio · 19°03′ · retrograde☿℞19°Venus in Sagittarius · 17°06′♀17°Mars in Cancer · 17°00′♂16°Jupiter in Capricorn · 1°43′♃1°Saturn in Capricorn · 13°47′♄13°Uranus in Leo · 25°29′♅25°Neptune in Scorpio · 9°00′♆8°Pluto in Virgo · 7°48′♇7°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Kathy’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineMars1.4° to 2.7° orb

    Kathy’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars4.3° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 7.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.0° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What these five are read as, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 27°25′

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 17°36′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 16°57′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 21°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Venus 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.1°

Kathy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Kathy’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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.

  • Venus quincunx Mars 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

Born the same day as Kathy

Tilda Swinton was born on November 4, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Oak Park, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Kathy’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1960. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kathy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q432437 (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 nrkbeta, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kathy Griffin at Wikipedia, 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 Kathy Griffin.

Quick answers about Kathy Griffin’s chart

How old is Kathy Griffin?
Kathy Griffin is 65 years old, born November 4, 1960 in Oak Park, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kathy Griffin?
Kathy Griffin is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Kathy Griffin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1960 birth.
What is Kathy Griffin's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Kathy Griffin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kathy Griffin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kathy Griffin's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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