Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan (born November 9, 1934, Brooklyn, United States, 17:05; died 1996), was an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author. Sagan is best remembered for Pale Blue Dot, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science and The Demon-Haunted World. Sagan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Masursky Award and NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Carl Sagan’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Carl Sagan’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl does not do surface. The core of Carl is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Carl is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Carl is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Carl needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Carl even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Carl creates
How Carl makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Carl builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Carl Sagan's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Carl Sagan was born on November 9, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Carl Sagan's birth date, November 9, 1934, 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
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Carl Sagan's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Saturn in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Sagan's timed chart is Moon sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Carl Sagan combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Carl’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 0.2° orb
Carl’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 0.4° orb
Carl’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.0° orb
Carl’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileMarsseparating · 1.4° orb
Carl’s affections open doors for their drive.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 2.3° orb
Carl’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunsextileNeptuneseparating · 2.6° orb
Carl’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
Carl’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 3.0° orb
Carl’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunsextileMarsseparating · 3.7° orb
Carl’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
MercuryoppositionUranusapplying · 4.7° orb
Carl’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 4.8° orb
Carl’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineUranusapplying · 6.9° orb
Carl’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 7.7° orb
Carl’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 8°23′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Carl turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLeo 0°23′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Carl is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 5°05′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Carl is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°31′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Carl is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°40′ · House 4
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 3° orb.
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Moon 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.9°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Carl is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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 semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
Carl’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 8 | Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | Mars, Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 3 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 7 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 10 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 12 | Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 5 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 5 | Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Carl’s cards
Every card is computed from November 9, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q410, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 NASA/JPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Sagan at Wikipedia, carlsagan.com, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Sagan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carl Sagan?
- Carl Sagan was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1934, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Carl Sagan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1934 birth.
- What time was Carl Sagan born?
- 17:05 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Carl Sagan's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 17:05 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Carl Sagan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 9, 1934 birth date.
- What was Carl Sagan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 9, 1934 birth time.
- Where was Carl Sagan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Carl Sagan's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
