Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961, Birmingham, United States, 07:49), aged 65, is an US track & field athlete. Lewis has played for Santa Monica Track Club. Lewis's honours include New Jersey Hall of Fame, Silver Olympic Order and Associated Press Athlete of the Year.
Carl Lewis’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Carl
Carl Lewis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1961, Carl came 56th among boys and 1,896th among girls, carried by 7,255 American boys and 37 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Lewis took the Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 1983, at 22.
Training came by way of Willingboro High School and University of Houston.
The same date carries Diana, Princess of Wales. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Willingboro High School and University of Houston
- Awards
- Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1983), L'Équipe Champion of Champions (1991) and Princess of Asturias Award for Sports (1996)
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl feels the room before entering it. The core of Carl is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Carl, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Carl needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Carl needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Carl creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Carl is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Carl Lewis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Birmingham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Birmingham at 07:49, Carl Lewis’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Birmingham that night
Computed for 33.52°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Birmingham at the birth hour: Mirach of Andromeda, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Birmingham on any night.
The Moon, 87% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -24° below the horizon.
What Carl's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Enforcer 廉貞 in 寅
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Jupiter · T-square onto Venus
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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Carl Lewis's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Carl Lewis was born on July 1, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Carl Lewis's birth date, July 1, 1961, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Carl’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Carl Lewis' timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Venus in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Lewis' timed chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carl Lewis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Carl’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 0.8° orb
Carl’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenussquareUranusseparating · 0.8° orb
Carl’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 1.8° orb
Carl’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonoppositionUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.6° orb
MercurysextilePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb
MoonsquareVenusapplying · 2.8° orb
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 3.4° orb
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 3.5° orb
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 3.7° orb
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.5° orb
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 5.3° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.1° orb
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°28′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 10°33′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°36′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 19°06′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°41′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.1°
- Eros square Ascendant 1.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea square Moon 2.3°
- Eros trine Sun 2.8°
- Chiron trine Sun 3.0°
Carl’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Carl’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Moon, Uranus, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
Carl’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 12 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 12 | Mars, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 10 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 2 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 7 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 6 | Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 1 | Moon, Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 10 | Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 12 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 7 | Sun, Mercury | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Carl
Diana, Princess of Wales was born on July 1, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Birmingham sits at 33.5°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
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- Liv Tyler1977
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Carl’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131237 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Lewis at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Lewis.
Quick answers about Carl Lewis’s chart
- How old is Carl Lewis?
- Carl Lewis is 65 years old, born July 1, 1961 in Birmingham, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Lewis?
- Carl Lewis is a Cancer: born July 1, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What is Carl Lewis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1961 birth.
- What time was Carl Lewis born?
- 07:49 local time in Birmingham, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Carl Lewis's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 07:49 birth time in Birmingham, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Carl Lewis?
- Carl Lewis is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Carl Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carl Lewis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Lewis's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
