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Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan (born May 28, 1985, City of Westminster, United Kingdom), aged 41, is an English actress. Notable films include The Great Gatsby, Pride & Prejudice and Public Enemies. Mulligan's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Film Independent Spirit Awards and Hollywood Actress Award.

Carey Mulligan’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Carey Mulligan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#6519

US rank in 2025

~29,621

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1985, Carey came 905th among girls and 683rd among boys, carried by 175 American girls and 169 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carey’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on C (3) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Carey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Carey apart

Carey Mulligan took the Hollywood Actress Award in 2009, at 24.

The classrooms behind this chart: Woldingham School and International School of Düsseldorf.

The working life starts in 2004, at 19.

On the family side, Carey Mulligan was married Marcus Mumford.

Kylie Minogue (1968) and Marco Rubio (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Woldingham School and International School of Düsseldorf
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (2010), Hollywood Actress Award (2009) and Crystal Award (2022)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture
Working from
2004
Wikipedia editions
69

What the chart says

Carey, according to the stars

Core essence

Carey is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Carey needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Carey is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Carey needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Carey wants to be loved

Carey wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Carey creates

How Carey 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. Carey 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: Carey 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Carey is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Carey scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Carey's birth date. Working below.

Where Carey sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Carey

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carey

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Carey

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carey

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

PracticalVisionary
Carey

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carey

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above City of Westminster on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Carey’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 25.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over City of Westminster that night

Computed for 51.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at City of Westminster was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 84.7° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from City of Westminster at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 65% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -0° down.

How unusual Carey's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet

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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Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Carey Mulligan's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Carey Mulligan was born on May 28, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Carey Mulligan's birth date, May 28, 1985, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Carey’s chart

Carey’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.3° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.9° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 5.1° orbSun in Gemini · 7°03′☉7°Moon in Virgo · 18°58′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 25°11′☿25°Venus in Aries · 22°19′♀22°Mars in Gemini · 21°58′♂21°Jupiter in Aquarius · 16°52′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 23°54′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Sagittarius · 16°22′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Capricorn · 2°55′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Scorpio · 2°27′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

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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

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.3° to 2.3° orb

    Carey’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Carey’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.5° orb

    Carey’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus5.2° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.5° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.2° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 5.4° to 18.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 8°41′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 24°42′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 0°25′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 16°47′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 2.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 3.0°

Carey’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Carey’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Venus, Mars, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.6°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.9°

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Carey’s cards

Computed from May 28, 1985. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q219655 (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 Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carey Mulligan at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carey Mulligan.

Quick answers about Carey Mulligan’s chart

How old is Carey Mulligan?
Carey Mulligan is 41 years old, born May 28, 1985 in City of Westminster, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Carey Mulligan?
Carey Mulligan is a Gemini: born May 28, 1985, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Carey Mulligan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1985 birth.
What is Carey Mulligan's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Carey Mulligan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Carey Mulligan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Carey Mulligan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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