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Katori Hall

Katori Hall (born May 10, 1981, Memphis, United States), aged 45, is an American playwright. Hall's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Katori Hall’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Katori Hall’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#9774

US rank in 2025

~202

Americans share it since 2007

2024

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Katori falls under that line for 1981. Its peak came in 2024, and 202 Americans have carried it since 2007.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Katori’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on I (9).

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

Katori’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

The record

What sets Katori apart

Linda Evangelista (1965) and Miuccia Prada (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Katori, according to the stars

Core essence

Katori is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Katori is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Katori 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 Katori 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 Katori wants to be loved

Katori 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 Katori is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Katori creates

How Katori makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Katori creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Katori is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Katori is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Katori is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Katori's birth date. Working below.

Where Katori sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Katori

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katori

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

PrivateExpressive
Katori

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Katori

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Katori

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Katori

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Katori Hall

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Memphis 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 Memphis that night

Computed for 35.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Memphis at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 35.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Memphis on any night.

The Moon, 52% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.

How unusual Katori's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde · 1 planet 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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Katori Hall in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Katori Hall's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 10, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Katori Hall was born on May 10, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Katori Hall's birth date, May 10, 1981, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Katori’s chart

Katori’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.7° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Taurus · 19°56′☉19°Moon in Leo · 17°16′☽17°Mercury in Gemini · 4°31′☿4°Venus in Taurus · 28°38′♀28°Mars in Taurus · 11°28′♂11°Jupiter in Libra · 0°53′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Libra · 3°32′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Scorpio · 28°27′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°21′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Libra · 22°13′ · retrograde♇℞22°

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

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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

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.9° orb

    Katori’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Katori’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.6° to 2.9° orb

    Katori’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.1° to 7.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.5° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.5° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 18°09′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 28°16′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 19°45′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°52′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.6°

Katori’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Katori’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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 biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.3°

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Katori’s cards

Computed from May 10, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Katori’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6377805 (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 HowlRound, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Katori Hall.

Quick answers about Katori Hall’s chart

How old is Katori Hall?
Katori Hall is 45 years old, born May 10, 1981 in Memphis, United States.
What zodiac sign is Katori Hall?
Katori Hall is a Taurus: born May 10, 1981, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Katori Hall's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1981 birth.
What is Katori Hall's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Katori Hall's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Katori Hall's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Katori Hall's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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