Katharine Hepburn

Film actor and autobiographer · United States · 1907–2003

Taurus 20.8° · born May 12, 1907
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Cardinal signs carry five of the nine placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. Cardinal weight is read as initiative: the instinct to be the reason something began.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Hartford—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 20.8° Taurus, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Saturn. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 7.6° Taurus, Venus holds 18.1° Aries, Mars holds 15.7° Capricorn — in the old shorthand, thought with its feet on the ground; attraction declared rather than implied; effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Mercury to Jupiter is the closest call of the day, a sextile within 1.3°. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Jupiter conjunction Neptune at 1.6°, and Uranus opposition Neptune at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. Venus in Aries at 18.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Capricorn at 15.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Jupiter in Cancer at 9.0° is in exaltation. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives earth 4, water 3, fire 1, air 1, and cardinal 5, fixed 2, mutable 2 across the modes. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results. Uranus was retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.2° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Katharine Hepburn · revision 1358990900
Wikidata: Q56016 · revision 2518479885
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1907-05-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Hartford, United States · Q33486
Coordinates: 41.7633, -72.6850 · from Hartford
Reference instant: 1907-05-12T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.23° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Restored by Adam Cuerden · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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