Katie Couric
Katie Couric (born January 7, 1957, Arlington County, United States, 23:55), aged 69, is an American journalist, presenter, producer, and author. Couric is best known for Katie, Yahoo News and CBS Evening News. Couric's honours include Daytime Emmy Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host and Television Hall of Fame.
Katie Couric’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
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Katie Couric’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Katie in the U.S.?
#646
US rank in 2025
~241,784
Americans share it since 1880
1986
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Katie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Katie apart
The same date carries Ivan Glasenberg. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
What the chart says
Katie, according to the stars
Core essence
Katie is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Katie is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Katie runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Katie needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Katie wants to be loved
Katie 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 Katie and watch them fall for you again.
How Katie creates
How Katie makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Katie creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Katie is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Katie is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Katie gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Katie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Katie sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Katie Couric's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Katie Couric was born on January 7, 1957, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Katie Couric's birth date, January 7, 1957, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Katie’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Katie Couric's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Mars in the 7th house and Jupiter in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Katie Couric's timed chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Katie Couric combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Katie’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareMarsapplying · 0.2° orb
Katie’s core identity grinds against their drive.
MoontrineUranusapplying · 0.3° orb
Katie’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb
Katie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
Katie’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 3.6° orb
Katie’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
JupitersextileUranusapplying · 4.0° orb
Katie’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 4.4° orb
Katie’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb
Katie’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurysquareMarsapplying · 5.4° orb
Katie’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 5.6° orb
Katie’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrinePlutoapplying · 5.9° orb
Katie’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenustrineMarsseparating · 6.4° orb
Katie’s affections flow straight into their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Katie’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°07′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Katie making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAries 12°02′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Katie looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 7°48′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Katie is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°29′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Katie is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°30′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Katie at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Ascendant 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.7°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 1.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
- Eros square Saturn 2.3°
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°).
Katie’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Katie is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Katie’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Grand trine · Moon, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 quintile Mercury 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Moon biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Katie’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 3 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 12 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 1 | Venus, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 3 | Sun, Mercury | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 11 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 7 | Moon, Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 3 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 7 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 4 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 4 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Katie
Ivan Glasenberg was born on January 7, 1957 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Katie’s cards
Every card is computed from January 7, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Katie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230739, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Katie Couric’s chart
- How old is Katie Couric?
- Katie Couric is 69 years old, born January 7, 1957 in Arlington County, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Katie Couric?
- Katie Couric is a Capricorn: born January 7, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- What is Katie Couric's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1957 birth.
- What time was Katie Couric born?
- 23:55 local time in Arlington County, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Katie Couric's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 23:55 birth time in Arlington County, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Katie Couric?
- Katie Couric is 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Katie Couric's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 7, 1957 birth date.
- What is Katie Couric's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 7, 1957 birth time.
- Where is Katie Couric's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Katie Couric's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
