Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 82, is an American journalist (born 1944). Bernstein's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, George Polk Award and Worth Bingham Prize.
Carl Bernstein’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Carl
Carl Bernstein’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Carl in the U.S.?
#1134
US rank in 2025
~508,017
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
In 1944, 6,825 American boys and 30 girls were registered Carl — 36th among boys and 1,492nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Carl apart
Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Carl is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Carl you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Carl creates
How Carl makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Carl creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Carl is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Carl scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Carl's birth date. Working below.
Where Carl sits
Six lines
Carl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Carl Bernstein
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 72% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Venus · Grand trine · No Water planets
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Carl Bernstein's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Carl Bernstein was born on February 14, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Carl Bernstein's birth date, February 14, 1944, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Bernstein's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Carl Bernstein combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.3° orb
Carl’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.2° to 1.7° orb
Carl’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° orb
Carl’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.4° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.6° to 5.0° orb
stableMarssextilePluto4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.6° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air7 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 13°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°17′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°48′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.6°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Carl’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Carl’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusTwo 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.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
More people like Carl
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Born in United States
- Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist (born 1943)
- Henry ThreadgillAmerican jazz musician (born 1944)
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
- Richard FordAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Wallace ShawnAmerican actor
- David J. WinelandAmerican physicist
More charts like Carl’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Charlie DayAmerican actor, writer and producer (born 1976)
- Jeff DyeAmerican stand-up comedian
- Kristen DouteAmerican actress
Born in Monkey years
- Jason RitterAmerican actor
- Doria RaglandAmerican social worker and mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Molly RingwaldAmerican actress and writer (born 1968)
Also born on February 14
- Ángel Di María1988
- Michael Bloomberg1942
- Danai Gurira1978
- Karol G1991
- Freddie Highmore1992
- Stephen A. Schwarzman1947
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Nat King ColeAmerican singer and jazz pianist
- RobinhoBrazilian former association football player
- Stephen CurryAmerican basketball player
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Justin TimberlakeAmerican singer and actor
- Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Elijah WoodAmerican actor
- Gabriel BatistutaArgentine association football player
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Dayo OdeyingboAmerican football player
- Brady CookAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Dalton SchultzAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Tremon SmithAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Novak DjokovicSerbian tennis player
- Diana, Princess of WalesMember of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
- Leonardo DiCaprioAmerican actor and producer
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Carl’s cards
Computed from February 14, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319967 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Bernstein at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Bernstein.
Quick answers about Carl Bernstein’s chart
- How old is Carl Bernstein?
- Carl Bernstein is 82 years old, born February 14, 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Bernstein?
- Carl Bernstein is an Aquarius: born February 14, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Carl Bernstein's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1944 birth.
- What is Carl Bernstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Bernstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carl Bernstein's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Bernstein's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
