Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes (born Kate Noelle Holmes; December 18, 1978, Toledo, United States, 21:32), aged 47, is an American actress. Holmes is best known for Dawson's Creek. Holmes's honours include Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Drama, Crystal Award and Max Mara Face of the Future Award.
Katie Holmes’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Katie
Katie Holmes’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
In 1978, 3,426 American girls and 7 boys were registered Katie — 90th among girls and 4,791st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Katie’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Kate Noelle Holmes, not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
22
Personality · quietly formidable
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
Katie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
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 1978, 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 Katie apart
Dawson's Creek. That is the work the name is attached to.
Katie Holmes was taught at Columbia University.
Katie Holmes was 19 when the work began in 1997.
On Wikipedia the categories read American former Scientologists, Actresses from Toledo, Ohio and Converts to Roman Catholicism from Scientology.
Josh Dallas shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Dawson's Creek
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Awards
- GLAAD Media Awards (2000), Max Mara Face of the Future Award (2011) and Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Drama (1999)
- Working from
- 1997
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 77
What the chart says
Katie, according to the stars
Core essence
Katie is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Katie 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, Katie needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Katie needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Katie wants to be loved
Katie 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 Katie even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Katie creates
How Katie makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Katie builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Katie 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 1 is the pioneer. Katie is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Katie leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Katie does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Katie's birth date. Working below.
Where Katie sits
Six lines
Katie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Katie Holmes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toledo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Toledo at 21:32, Katie Holmes’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Toledo that night
Computed for 41.65°N, at the documented birth time.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Toledo at the birth hour, 86.2° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Toledo sits at 41.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Toledo on any night.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Kate Noelle Holmes
- Known as
- Katie Holmes
- Born in
- Toledo, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Katie Holmes's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Toledo, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 108th of 167 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Abuja, Nigeria, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Katie's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Charmer 貪狼 in 丑
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifestor, profile 5/1
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Katie Holmes's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Katie Holmes was born on December 18, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Katie Holmes's birth date, December 18, 1978, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Katie’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Katie Holmes' timed chart: Moon in the 1st house, Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house and Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Katie Holmes' timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Katie Holmes combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Katie’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.5° orb
Katie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussextileSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb
Katie’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb
Katie’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsextilePlutoapplying · 1.7° orb
MoonsquareUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 2.6° orb
VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.4° orb
SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.4° orb
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Katie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°24′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°28′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 2°24′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 25°57′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°24′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.7°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.8°
Katie’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Moon, Jupiter
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Katie’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · 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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
Katie’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 5 | Moon, Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 5 | Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 3 | Venus, Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 1 | Sun, Mercury, Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 2 | Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Katie Holmes also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Katie
Josh Dallas was born on December 18, 1978 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.7°N, the sky above Toledo stops at −48.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Katie
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- Jesse Metcalfe1978
- Jill Wagner1979
- Rachel McAdams1978
- Jason Isbell1979
- Gwendoline Christie1978
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Born in United States
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- Matthew MorrisonAmerican actor, dancer, and singer
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
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- Ben HorowitzAmerican businessman
- Fish LeongMalaysian singer
- Manish MalhotraIndian fashion designer
Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- DMX1970
- Ashley Benson1989
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Daniel CarlsonAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Darius SlaytonAmerican football player
- Darnell MooneyAmerican football wide receiver
Other Sagittarius Horse charts
- Donovan JacksonAmerican football player (born 2002)
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- Jayden HigginsAmerican football player
- Junior ColsonHaitian-American football player (born 2002)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Kiefer SutherlandBritish-Canadian actor (born 1966)
- Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer (born 1991)
- Curtis StoneAustralian chef
- John StamosAmerican actor
Other Leo risings with documented times
- Andrea BarberAmerican actress (born 1976)
- Lindsey BuckinghamAmerican musician
- Jonathan BennettAmerican actor
- Rosalynn CarterFirst Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Tylan WallaceAmerican football player
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- D'Angelo RossAmerican football player
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Katie’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Katie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q174346 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Jay Tamboli from Washington, DC, US, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Katie Holmes at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Katie Holmes.
Quick answers about Katie Holmes’s chart
- How old is Katie Holmes?
- Katie Holmes is 47 years old, born December 18, 1978 in Toledo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Katie Holmes?
- Katie Holmes is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1978, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Katie Holmes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1978 birth.
- What time was Katie Holmes born?
- 21:32 local time in Toledo, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Katie Holmes's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 21:32 birth time in Toledo, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Katie Holmes?
- Katie Holmes is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Katie Holmes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Katie Holmes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Katie Holmes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Katie Holmes's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
