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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~508,017
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
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Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carl sits
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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.
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Carl Bernstein in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Carl Bernstein, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Carl’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.9° to 2.1° orb
Carl’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto2.4° orb
Carl’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb
Carl’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
Carl’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.6° to 5.0° orb
Carl’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextilePluto4.2° to 4.5° orb
Carl’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
Carl’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.6° to 6.9° orb
Carl’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 13°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Carl turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresGemini 24°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Carl feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°17′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Carl is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°48′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Carl carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Carl is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Ceres trine Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.6°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.8°
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°).
Carl’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Carl is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Carl’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.
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 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.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carl Bernstein, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Carl’s cards
Every card is computed from February 14, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Carl Bernstein, 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
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319967, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Carl Bernstein 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 Carl Bernstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1944 birth date.
- What is Carl Bernstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1944 birth date.
- 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.
