Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian, is continuing her roll of UK successes with First Born Daughter on Sky Comedy. Provocative and ballsy, she flaunts a feminine image, unusually for a stand up comedienne, with no holds barred on stories of her early sexual adventures and mistake of a first marriage. She is now settled with four children in the UK where her career took off.
Born 30 June 1983 6.28pm Sarnia, Ontario, she has an 8th house Sun Mars conjunction in Cancer inconjunct a mischievous Jupiter Uranus conjunct her colourful Sagittarius Ascendant. Her Pisces Moon in her communicative 3rd house is trine her Sun Mars which could have left her secretive and focused on home and family. But her Mercury in chatty Gemini in an aggressive conjunction to Mars in a showbizzy opposition to Neptune and trine a forceful Saturn Pluto in Libra conjunct would jolt her out of hiding.
The move to the UK in 2008 was also critical since her chart relocated to London moves her Sun Mars to the performing 5th house, with creative Neptune in the 10th plus a zany Aquarius Ascendant. A year after arriving she won the Funny Woman Award and has not looked back since. When she moved tr Uranus was crossing her IC which does suggest a domestic upheaval. Tr Pluto was on the cusp of her 2nd hinting at a chance to transform her finances in the years ahead. And tr Saturn was moving through her 9th heading for her Midheaven and 10th house of career during the years that followed.
She says in response to raised eyebrows about her material – “I’m not trying to be provocative all the time. My experiences, behaviours and mistakes, they exist in this space between pride and shame. It happened, I talk about it, and maybe reprieve comes out of the jokes. I love telling people secrets; I want people to tell me their secrets. I want to know mistakes people have made. I don’t know why I’m so thirsty for it, but I feel it like a bond.”
Katherine Ryan quotes:
“I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.”
“If I’ve got a confidence problem, it’s that my self-esteem is entirely too high.”
“I don’t worry about whether or not people like me.”
“I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.”
Born same day and a couple of hours after singer Cheryl Tweedy (aka Cole) who was in Girls Aloud but a few timezones apart. Both Sag ascendants due to the difference
Hi Marjorie
‘Sun Mars conjunction in Cancer trine a mischievous Jupiter Uranus’
But her Jup/Uranus is in Sagittarius so isn’t that inconjunct?
She has the classic Jupiter/Uranus aspect which frequently features in the astrology of stand-ups. Plus it’s in jovial Sagittarius as well as conjunct her Ascendant. I have noticed a reoccurrence of Jupiter/Uranus/Mercury aspects and Aquarius often features in these charts. For example Ricky Gervais has a yod on Jupiter in Aquarius with Mercury in Cancer sextile Pluto in Virgo. Aquarius rules the lower legs (stand up) and often has a talent as an outsider looking on at the absurdity of human society. She was also instrumental in exposing Russell Brand, for which I can’t help but applaud her.