Rita Cortese
Rita Cortese (born August 5, 1949, Buenos Aires, Argentina), aged 77, is an Argentine actress.
Rita Cortese’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Rita
Rita Cortese’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rita in the U.S.?
#1287
US rank in 2025
~285,230
Americans share it since 1880
1949
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1949, Rita came 54th among girls and 1,927th among boys, carried by 6,653 American girls and 16 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rita’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Rita apart
Neil Armstrong (1930) and Janet McTeer (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rita, according to the stars
Core essence
Rita is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Rita is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Rita wants to be loved
Rita wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Rita and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Rita creates
How Rita makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Rita creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Rita is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rita is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rita does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Rita's birth date. Working below.
Where Rita sits
Six lines
Rita’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Rita Cortese
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires that night
Computed for 34.60°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buenos Aires was Shaula, in Scorpius, 84.0° up.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 68 catalog stars above the horizon.
Buenos Aires sits at 34.6°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon, 92% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
How unusual Rita's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Rita Cortese's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Rita Cortese was born on August 5, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Rita Cortese's birth date, August 5, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Rita’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rita Cortese's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rita Cortese combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Rita’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Rita’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.5° to 3.1° orb
Rita’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.7° orb
Rita’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileMars2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Rita’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°51′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 7°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°07′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.9°
Rita’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Rita’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
More people like Rita
Other actors
- Bill Hudson1949
- Hanno Pöschl1949
- David Foster1949
- Meryl Streep1949
- Jeff Bridges1949
- Veronica Cartwright1949
Born in Argentina
- Ricardo DarínArgentine actor
- Martha ArgerichArgentine pianist (1941-)
- Luis PaganiArgentinian businessperson
- Pope Francis266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025
- Mauricio MacriPresident of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
- Mario DavidovskyArgentine-American composer
More charts like Rita’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Arne TiseliusSwedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
- Aaron KlugBritish chemist and biophysicist
- John B. GoodenoughAmerican materials scientist
Born in Ox years
- Kevin GivensAmerican football defensive tackle
- Larrell MurchisonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Bryce HallAmerican football player
Also born on August 5
- Neil Armstrong1930
- Janet McTeer1961
- Yungblud1997
- Eliana Kalogeras2007
- Juan Pablo Galavis1981
- Olivia Holt1997
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Erika CostellAmerican YouTuber
- Nikita DragunAmerican internet personality, YouTuber, make-up artist and model
- Lennon StellaCanadian singer and actress
Other Leo Ox charts
- Münir ÖzkulTurkish actor
- Keith CarradineAmerican actor and singer
- Auguste BeernaertBelgian prime minister and human rights activist
- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Joey BlountAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Kyle PittsAmerican football player
- Skylar ThompsonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Riley DixonAmerican football player (born 1993)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Nicholas ColasantoAmerican actor and television director
- Tim HoltAmerican actor
- Corin RedgraveBritish actor
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Rita’s cards
Computed from August 5, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6109125 (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 Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rita Cortese at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rita Cortese.
Quick answers about Rita Cortese’s chart
- How old is Rita Cortese?
- Rita Cortese is 77 years old, born August 5, 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- What zodiac sign is Rita Cortese?
- Rita Cortese is a Leo: born August 5, 1949, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Rita Cortese's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1949 birth.
- What is Rita Cortese's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rita Cortese's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rita Cortese's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rita Cortese's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
