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Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington (born January 31, 1977, New York City, United States, 01:44), aged 49, is an American actress. Notable films include Django Unchained, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Fantastic Four. Washington's honours include Lucy Award, GLAAD Vanguard Award and Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year.

Kerry Washington’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Kerry Washington’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2464

US rank in 2025

~98,644

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Kerry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

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What the chart says

Kerry, according to the stars

Core essence

Kerry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Kerry is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Kerry processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Kerry needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Kerry wants to be loved

Kerry wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Kerry, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Kerry creates

How Kerry 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. Kerry 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: Kerry is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Kerry is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Kerry 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 Kerry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Kerry sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Kerry

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kerry

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

PrivateExpressive
Kerry

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kerry

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

PracticalVisionary
Kerry

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kerry

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

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The quick version

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Kerry Washington's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Kerry Washington was born on January 31, 1977, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Kerry Washington's birth date, January 31, 1977, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Kerry’s chart

Kerry’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.9° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.3° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°17′ · house 4☉11°Moon in Gemini · 25°36′ · house 8☽25°Mercury in Capricorn · 16°28′ · house 3☿16°Venus in Pisces · 28°07′ · house 5♀28°Mars in Capricorn · 22°55′ · house 3♂22°Jupiter in Taurus · 21°36′ · house 7♃21°Saturn in Leo · 13°37′ · house 10 · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Scorpio · 11°41′ · house 1♅11°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°34′ · house 2♆15°Pluto in Libra · 14°08′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 23°01′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 23°01′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCVir 5°34′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICPsc 5°34′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsquareUranusapplying · 0.4° orb

    Kerry’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • SaturnsextilePlutoseparating · 0.5° orb

    Kerry’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarstrineJupiterseparating · 1.3° orb

    Kerry’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb

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

  • SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 1.9° orb

    Kerry’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 1.9° orb

    Kerry’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.3° orb

    Kerry’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb

    Kerry’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoonsquareVenusapplying · 2.5° orb

    Kerry’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SuntrinePlutoapplying · 2.8° orb

    Kerry’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SunsextileNeptuneapplying · 4.3° orb

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

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 4.8° orb

    Kerry’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 5.1° orb

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

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 6.4° orb

    Kerry’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Kerry’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°34′ · House 6

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Kerry may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 10°28′ · House 12

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Kerry is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 3°41′ · House 2

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Kerry attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 20°18′ · House 11

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Kerry is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°53′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Kerry is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Sun 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron sextile Moon 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 2.1°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Ascendant 2.7°

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°).

Kerry’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Kerry is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Kerry’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Mercury quintile Venus 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Moon 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°

Kerry’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.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 12Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 7Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 10Mercury, Marsmind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 1Sunhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 2Venuscreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Capricorn, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 5Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 3Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Gemini, house 8emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Aquarius, house 4Saturncareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 3emptyfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Pisces, house 5Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Kerry’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Justice

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Kerry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232104, 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 Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kerry Washington at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.

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Quick answers about Kerry Washington’s chart

How old is Kerry Washington?
Kerry Washington is 49 years old, born January 31, 1977 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kerry Washington?
Kerry Washington is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1977, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
What is Kerry Washington's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1977 birth.
What time was Kerry Washington born?
01:44 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Kerry Washington's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 01:44 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Kerry Washington's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 31, 1977 birth date.
What is Kerry Washington's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 31, 1977 birth time.
Where is Kerry Washington's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 20°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kerry Washington's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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