Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis (born September 17, 1939, St. Louis, United States), aged 87, is an American writer. Dennis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Carl Dennis’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Carl Dennis’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Carl is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Carl feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Carl needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Carl and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Carl creates
How Carl 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. Carl 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: Carl is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Carl is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Carl does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Carl's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carl sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Carl Dennis's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 17, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Carl Dennis was born on September 17, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Carl Dennis's birth date, September 17, 1939, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Dennis' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Carl Dennis combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carl Dennis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° 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.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.6° orb
Carl’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Carl’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineMars0.3° to 1.2° orb
Carl’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.2° to 3.1° orb
Carl’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° orb
Carl’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
Carl’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Carl’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.6° orb
Carl’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.6° to 4.4° orb
Carl’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
Carl’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.3° orb
Carl’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 4.6° orb
Carl’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air 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.
⚷ ChironCancer 18°38′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Carl is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLeo 14°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Carl is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLeo 1°35′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Carl loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 3°36′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Carl is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Carl is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Eros square Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.5°
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. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars7 pts
disposes Jupiter; 6 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Carl is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
- Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carl Dennis, 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 September 17, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carl Dennis, 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 Q5040035, 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.
The same Carl Dennis at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Carl Dennis’s chart
- How old is Carl Dennis?
- Carl Dennis is 87 years old, born September 17, 1939 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Dennis?
- Carl Dennis is a Virgo: born September 17, 1939, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is Carl Dennis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 17, 1939 birth.
- What time was Carl Dennis 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 Dennis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 17, 1939 birth date.
- What is Carl Dennis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 17, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Carl Dennis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Dennis's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
