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Kim Novak

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933, Chicago, United States), aged 93, is an American actress. Novak's honours include Honorary Golden Bear, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Kim Novak’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Kim Novak’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#4228

US rank in 2025

~214,768

Americans share it since 1912

1960

its peak year

The SSA recorded 23 American boys and 14 girls named Kim in 1933: 1,432nd among boys and 2,218th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on K (2) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 4: tact against craft.

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

Kim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

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 1933, 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 Kim apart

The Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress came in 1955, when Kim Novak was 22.

Study took Kim Novak to Wilbur Wright College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kim Novak was 21 when the work began in 1954.

The family line: married Richard Johnson.

Wikipedia files Kim Novak under Farragut Career Academy alumni, Actresses from Jackson County, Oregon and People from Eagle Point, Oregon.

William Shockley (1910) and Robbie Williams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Wilbur Wright College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Farragut Career Academy
Awards
Honorary Golden Bear (1977) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress (1955)
Working from
1954
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
60

What the chart says

Kim, according to the stars

Core essence

Kim is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Kim 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.

How Kim wants to be loved

Kim wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Kim be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Kim creates

How Kim makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Kim creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Kim 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Kim is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Kim channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Kim's birth date. Working below.

Where Kim sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kim

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kim

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

PrivateExpressive
Kim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kim

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

PracticalVisionary
Kim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kim

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kim Novak

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

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 86% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Chicago, United States
Lives in
Sams Valley

Wikidata records Sams Valley as Kim Novak'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 Kim Novak: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kim's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars retrograde

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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Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Kim Novak's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 13, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Kim Novak was born on February 13, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Kim Novak's birth date, February 13, 1933, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Kim’s chart

Kim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.3° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.5° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.6° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.6° orbSun in Aquarius · 24°36′☉24°Moon in Libra · 4°36′☽4°Mercury in Aquarius · 29°09′☿29°Venus in Aquarius · 7°53′♀7°Mars in Virgo · 16°39′ · retrograde♂℞16°Jupiter in Virgo · 21°13′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°11′♄9°Uranus in Aries · 20°22′♅20°Neptune in Virgo · 9°12′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Cancer · 21°43′ · retrograde♇℞21°

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

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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

  • stableJupitersextilePluto0.5° orb

    Kim’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.7° to 1.9° orb

    Kim’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranussquarePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

    Kim’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.3° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarssextilePlutoorb from 4.9° to 5.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 6.5° to 20.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 23°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 28°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 14°48′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 24°48′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.5°
  • Chiron square Sun 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.9°
  • Eros square Mars 1.9°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.9°

Kim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Kim’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.

  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.0°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.8°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 1.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°

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Kim’s cards

Computed from February 13, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q212879 (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 Robert Malloy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kim Novak at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kim Novak.

Quick answers about Kim Novak’s chart

How old is Kim Novak?
Kim Novak is 93 years old, born February 13, 1933 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kim Novak?
Kim Novak is an Aquarius: born February 13, 1933, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Kim Novak's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 13, 1933 birth.
What is Kim Novak's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Kim Novak's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kim Novak's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kim Novak's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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