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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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

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

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Carl sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Carl

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carl

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Carl

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carl

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Carl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carl

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Restless 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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Carl Granderson was born on December 18, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Carl Granderson's birth date, December 18, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Carl’s chart

Carl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Carl Granderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.8° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 27°12′27°Moon in Aries · 15°24′15°Mercury in Capricorn · 17°13′17°Venus in Sagittarius · 2°00′Mars in Virgo · 24°21′24°Jupiter in Capricorn · 22°10′22°Saturn in Aries · 0°49′Uranus in Aquarius · 2°34′Neptune in Capricorn · 26°22′26°Pluto in Sagittarius · 3°55′

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.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Carl’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Carl’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.8° to 2.2° orb

    Carl’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.3° orb

    Carl’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquareMars2.5° to 3.1° orb

    Carl’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.1° to 4.1° orb

    Carl’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° orb

    Carl’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° orb

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

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

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.

  • ChironLibra 29°00′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Carl is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • CeresCapricorn 13°39′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Carl caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ErosCapricorn 10°48′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Carl is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaAries 12°03′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Carl feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • Black Moon LilithLeo 19°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Carl is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.6°

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. 1. Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn9 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Carl is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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 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.

  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carl Granderson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Carl’s cards

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yang Fire

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Carl Granderson, 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 Q73268622, 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.

Portrait by AlexanderJonesi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carl Granderson 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
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 time was Carl Granderson 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 Granderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 18, 1996 birth date.
What is Carl Granderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 18, 1996 birth date.
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.

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