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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Carl
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
Carl ranked 30th among boys and 1,066th among girls in 1939, the year of this birth, with 6,593 American boys and 45 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Carl apart
Carl Dennis took the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2000, at 61.
University at Buffalo and Oberlin College shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Carl Dennis under University of Minnesota alumni, Oberlin College alumni and Jewish American poets.
Narendra Modi (1950) and Slayyyter (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University at Buffalo, Oberlin College and University of Minnesota
- Awards
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2000) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2002)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
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. Working below.
Where Carl sits
Six lines
Carl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Dennis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from St. Louis on any night.
The Moon, 27% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn
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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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.6° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 4.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 18°38′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 14°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 1°35′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 3°36′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Carl’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Carl’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.7°
More people like Carl
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Born in United States
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- Narendra Modi1950
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Carl’s cards
Computed from September 17, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5040035 (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.
The same Carl Dennis at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Dennis.
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.
- 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 is Carl Dennis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Dennis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
