Rita Cortese
Rita Cortese (born August 5, 1949, Buenos Aires, Argentina), aged 77, is an Argentine actress.
Rita Cortese’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Rita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rita sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Rita Cortese, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Rita’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.9° orb
Rita’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
Rita’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb
Rita’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb
Rita’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.4° to 6.0° orb
Rita’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.1° to 7.9° orb
Rita’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Rita building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°51′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Rita caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 7°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Rita is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°07′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
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. Rita is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Rita carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.9°
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°).
Rita’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rita is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Rita’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rita Cortese, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Rita’s cards
Every card is computed from August 5, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Rita Cortese, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Rita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6109125, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Rita Cortese born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Rita Cortese's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 5, 1949 birth date.
- What is Rita Cortese's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 5, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
