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Carl Duering

Carl Duering (born May 29, 1923, Berlin, Germany; died 2018), was a German actor.

Carl Duering’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Carl Duering’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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

The SSA recorded 6,871 American boys and 49 girls named Carl in 1923: 28th among boys and 1,088th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carl’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

22 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Carl apart

John F. Kennedy (1917) and Peter Higgs (1929) 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 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. Carl needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Carl wants to be loved

Carl wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Carl is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Carl creates

How Carl makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Carl creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Carl is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Carl is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Carl

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carl

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

PrivateExpressive
Carl

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carl

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

PracticalVisionary
Carl

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carl

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Carl Duering

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berlin 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 Berlin that night

Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Berlin was Mizar, in Ursa Major, 87.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 52.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −37.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Berlin on any night.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Carl's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Neptune · 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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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Carl Duering's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 29, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Carl Duering was born on May 29, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 22

Dreams at full scale.

Carl Duering's birth date, May 29, 1923, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Carl’s chart

Carl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.5° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.3° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.5° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.1° orbSun in Gemini · 7°03′☉7°Moon in Scorpio · 26°29′☽26°Mercury in Gemini · 6°32′ · retrograde☿℞6°Venus in Taurus · 9°26′♀9°Mars in Gemini · 29°04′♂29°Jupiter in Scorpio · 11°13′ · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Libra · 13°38′ · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Pisces · 17°19′♅17°Neptune in Leo · 15°40′♆15°Pluto in Cancer · 9°53′♇9°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Carl’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Carl’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.1° to 2.4° orb

    Carl’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.6° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.0° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.7° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.3° to 17.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.3° to 18.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 19°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 14°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 11°18′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 11°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.9°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.3°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.9°

Carl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

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

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Carl’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneAn 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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°

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Carl’s cards

Computed from May 29, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15379136 (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 Stanley Kubrick, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carl Duering at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Duering.

Quick answers about Carl Duering’s chart

What zodiac sign was Carl Duering?
Carl Duering was a Gemini: born May 29, 1923, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Carl Duering's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1923 birth.
What was Carl Duering's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Carl Duering's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Carl Duering's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Carl Duering's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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