Carl Granderson
Carl Granderson (born December 18, 1996, Sacramento, United States), aged 29, is an American football defensive end. Granderson has played for Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls.
Carl Granderson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Carl
Carl Granderson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
Of the names registered in 1996, Carl came 250th, carried by 1,184 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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
Training came by way of University of Wyoming.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Carl Granderson: Wyoming Cowboys football players, Players of American football from Sacramento, California and New Orleans Saints players.
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wyoming
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Carl is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Carl runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Carl needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Carl and watch them fall for you again.
How Carl creates
How Carl makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Carl creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Carl is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Carl leads without needing to do it alone.
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.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Granderson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sacramento 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 Sacramento that night
Computed for 38.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sacramento at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 70% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Sun · No Water planets
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Carl Granderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Carl Granderson was born on December 18, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Carl Granderson's birth date, December 18, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Granderson's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carl Granderson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Aries 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
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Carl’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb
Carl’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.3° to 2.5° orb
Carl’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.8° to 2.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 29°00′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°39′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°48′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 12°03′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
Carl’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn9 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 6 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Carl’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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 onto Sun · Mars, Saturn, SunAn 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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.7°
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Johnny MundtAmerican football tight end
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Born in Rat years
- Martin GarrixDutch DJ and record producer
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- America FerreraAmerican actress
Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- DMX1970
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Katie CouricAmerican journalist, presenter, producer, and author
- CherylBritish singer, dancer, and television presenter
- Billy CrudupAmerican actor (born 1968)
Other Sagittarius Rat charts
- Lucas GrabeelAmerican actor and musician
- Jackson RathboneAmerican actor and musician
- Robin RobertsAmerican television broadcaster (born 1960)
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadAmerican actress (born 1984)
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Ken FisherAmerican investment adviser & analyst
- Sunil Mittalbusinessperson
- Kagemasa KozukiJapanese industrialist
- Seo Jung-jinSouth Korean entrepreneur
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- Kij JohnsonAmerican writer
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Carl’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73268622 (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 AlexanderJonesi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Granderson 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 Granderson.
Quick answers about Carl Granderson’s chart
- How old is Carl Granderson?
- Carl Granderson is 29 years old, born December 18, 1996 in Sacramento, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Granderson?
- Carl Granderson is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1996, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Carl Granderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1996 birth.
- What is Carl Granderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Granderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carl Granderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Granderson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
