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Carl Foreman

Carl Foreman (born July 23, 1914, Chicago, United States; died 1984), was an American screenwriter and film producer. Foreman's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Carl Foreman’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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 1914, 4,807 American boys and 33 girls were registered Carl — 24th among boys and 1,036th 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.

7

Expression · depth and research

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3).

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

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

—

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Botanical green

The record

What sets Carl apart

Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Carl, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, Carl needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Carl needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Carl creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Carl is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carl is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Carl channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Carl's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Rastaban, in Draco, 79.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

How unusual Carl's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Carl Foreman in 15 seconds

Cancer or Leo Sun

Carl Foreman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Wood Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Carl Foreman was born on July 23, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Carl Foreman's birth date, July 23, 1914, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 1° to 14° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.9° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.1° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.6° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 7° orbSun in Leo · 0°01′☉0°Moon in Leo · 8°06′☽8°Mercury in Cancer · 19°31′ · retrograde☿℞19°Venus in Virgo · 9°28′♀9°Mars in Virgo · 16°26′♂16°Jupiter in Aquarius · 19°37′ · retrograde♃℞19°Saturn in Gemini · 26°44′♄26°Uranus in Aquarius · 10°02′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Cancer · 28°02′♆28°Pluto in Cancer · 1°22′♇1°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb

    Carl’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.6° orb

    Carl’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

    Carl’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.7° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 1.8° to 14.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 3.3° to 16.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 4.6° to 18.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleJupitertrineSaturnorb from 7.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 29°17′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 8°27′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 5°09′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°42′ (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 0.0°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.5°

Carl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto

Configurations in Carl’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mars biquintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Carl’s cards

Computed from July 23, 1914. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1037848 (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 Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carl Foreman 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 Foreman.

Quick answers about Carl Foreman’s chart

What zodiac sign was Carl Foreman?
Carl Foreman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What was Carl Foreman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1914 birth.
What was Carl Foreman's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Carl Foreman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Carl Foreman'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 Foreman's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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