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), Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carl
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
Carl ranked 54th among boys and 1,825th among girls in 1959, the year of this birth, with 7,501 American boys and 37 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Phillips took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, at 18.
Training came by way of University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard University.
Wikipedia's editors put Carl Phillips under University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni, Boston University alumni and Poets from Massachusetts.
The same date carries Juan Carlos Escotet. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1977), Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (2006) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2023)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Latin and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Carl Phillips
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Everett 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 Everett that night
Computed for 47.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Everett at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 12.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 48.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 82% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 1° below the horizon.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No Air 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.
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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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces 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
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
stableMarssextileNeptune1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 26°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°53′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°31′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Carl’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Carl’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
Born the same day as Carl
Juan Carlos Escotet was born on July 23, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Everett, at 48.0°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. 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
Computed from July 23, 1959. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5040647 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Phillips 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 Phillips.
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.
- 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 is Carl Phillips's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Phillips's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
