Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips (born July 23, 1959, Everett, United States), aged 67, is an American writer and poet (born 1959). Phillips's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lambda Literary Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Carl Phillips’s zodiac sign is Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Earth Pig, with 
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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
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
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Carl is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Carl needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Carl creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Cancer or Leo Sun
Carl Phillips 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.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Carl Phillips was born on July 23, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Carl Phillips's birth date, July 23, 1959, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Phillips' date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carl Phillips, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Carl’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.4° to 1.0° orb
Carl’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Carl’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Carl’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.8° to 2.4° orb
Carl’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
Carl’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.8° to 2.9° orb
Carl’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.6° to 4.5° orb
Carl’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.6° to 3.8° orb
Carl’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° orb
Carl’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 26°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Carl making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Carl is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosVirgo 28°53′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Carl is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°31′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Carl is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Carl is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.4°
- Eros square Saturn 3.0°
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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Carl is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 in Leo · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carl Phillips, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Carl
Juan Carlos Escotet was born on July 23, 1959 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Carl’s cards
Every card is computed from July 23, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carl Phillips, 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 Q5040647, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Phillips 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.
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Quick answers about Carl Phillips’s chart
- How old is Carl Phillips?
- Carl Phillips is 67 years old, born July 23, 1959 in Everett, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Phillips?
- Carl Phillips 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. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Carl Phillips's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1959 birth.
- What time was Carl Phillips 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 Phillips's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 23, 1959 birth date.
- What is Carl Phillips's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 23, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Carl Phillips's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Phillips's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
