Carl Neumann Degler
Carl Neumann Degler (born February 6, 1921, Orange, United States; died 2014), was an American historian. Degler's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and Bancroft Prize.
Carl Neumann Degler’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Carl
Carl Neumann Degler’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
In 1921, 7,077 American boys and 42 girls were registered Carl — 30th among boys and 1,188th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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
The Albert J. Beveridge Award came in 1971, when Carl Neumann Degler was 50.
Carl Neumann Degler was taught at Upsala College and Columbia University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Newark, New Jersey, Historians of Brazil and Upsala College alumni.
Ronald Reagan (1911) and Bob Marley (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Upsala College and Columbia University
- Awards
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (1991), Pulitzer Prize for History (1972) and Bancroft Prize (1972)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Carl is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Carl is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Carl slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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 Neumann Degler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orange 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 Orange that night
Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Orange at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
Orange sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Orange at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Orange, United States
The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Carl Neumann Degler: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Carl Neumann Degler's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Carl Neumann Degler was born on February 6, 1921, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Carl Neumann Degler's birth date, February 6, 1921, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Neumann Degler's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carl Neumann Degler combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.8° to 1.6° orb
Carl’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.7° to 3.3° orb
Carl’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquarePluto2.5° to 3.6° orb
Carl’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.2° to 5.8° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 6.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.2° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 3.3° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleMarsoppositionJupiterorb from 7.4° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 7°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 25°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 14°57′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 1°49′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.1°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.8°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 3.0°
Carl’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect
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.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
More people like Carl
Other historians
- Perry Miller1905
- Stanley Karnow1925
- James MacGregor Burns1918
- William H. Goetzmann1930
- David M. Potter1910
- Leonard Levy1923
Born in United States
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- Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
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Born in Monkey years
- T. J. McConnellAmerican basketball player
- Johnny FurphyAustralian basketball player (born 2004)
- Cody WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
Also born on February 6
- Ronald Reagan1911
- Bob Marley1945
- Axl Rose1962
- Natalie Cole1950
- Tinashe1993
- Alice Eve1982
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Fred ChappellAmerican poet, novelist
- Kevin PruferAmerican poet
- Jeff WorleyAmerican writer (b.1947)
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Richard FordAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Henry ThreadgillAmerican jazz musician (born 1944)
- Jose Antonio VargasFilipino journalist, immigration activist
- Alice WalkerAmerican author and activist (born 1944)
Other Gilded Guardians
- Moss HartAmerican playwright, librettist, and theatre director
- J. R. MoehringerAmerican journalist
- William Morris MeredithAmerican poet
- James AgeeAmerican author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Joan GarciaSpanish footballer (born 2001)
- Chemsdine TalbiMoroccan footballer
- Ayyoub BouaddiMoroccan-French association football player (born 2007)
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Carl’s cards
Computed from February 6, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4120732 (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.
The same Carl Neumann Degler 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 Neumann Degler.
Quick answers about Carl Neumann Degler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carl Neumann Degler?
- Carl Neumann Degler was an Aquarius: born February 6, 1921, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Carl Neumann Degler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1921 birth.
- What was Carl Neumann Degler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Carl Neumann Degler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Carl Neumann Degler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Carl Neumann Degler's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
