Carleton Mabee
Carleton Mabee (born December 24, 1914, Shanghai, China; died 2014), was an American writer. Mabee's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Carleton Mabee’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Carleton
Carleton Mabee’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Carleton in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~4,839
Americans share it since 1880
1923
its peak year
The SSA recorded 51 American boys named Carleton in 1914: 737th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carleton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carleton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Carleton apart
Ava Gardner (1922) and Ricky Martin (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Carleton, according to the stars
Core essence
Carleton is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Carleton is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Carleton wants to be loved
Carleton 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 Carleton even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Carleton creates
How Carleton 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. Carleton 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: Carleton is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Carleton is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Carleton does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Carleton's birth date. Working below.
Where Carleton sits
Six lines
Carleton’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shanghai 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 Shanghai that night
Computed for 31.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Shanghai at 9 p.m. that evening: Atik of Perseus, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Shanghai sits at 31.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −58.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shanghai on any night.
Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon up and 52% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Carleton's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Carleton Mabee's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Carleton Mabee was born on December 24, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Carleton Mabee's birth date, December 24, 1914, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Carleton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carleton Mabee's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Carleton Mabee combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Carleton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.1° orb
Carleton’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Carleton’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Carleton’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.1° to 6.9° orb
stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn2.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.5° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.9° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.4° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.0° to 7.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Carleton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 14°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 1°18′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 4°07′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 29°35′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
- Eros square Sun 2.6°
- Eros square Mars 2.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.7°
- Eros square Pluto 2.9°
Carleton’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Carleton’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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.7°
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More charts like Carleton’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
- Corey HaimCanadian actor
- Evan HandlerAmerican actor
Born in Tiger years
- Alban LafontFrench-Ivorian footballer (born 1999)
- Roberto AlvaradoMexican association football player
- Nikola MoroCroatian association football player
Also born on December 24
- Ava Gardner1922
- Ricky Martin1971
- Louis Tomlinson1991
- Mary Barra1961
- Kate Spade1962
- Ryan Seacrest1974
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Ahed Al-TamimiPalestinian activist
- Nia SiouxAmerican actress, singer, dancer and model
- Kate DouglassAmerican swimmer
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
- Naya RiveraAmerican actress and singer
- Wynton RuferNew Zealand association football player
- Michael McGlincheyNew Zealand association football player
- Cynthia ErivoBritish actress and singer-songwriter
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Chris RichardsAmerican soccer player
- Luiz HenriqueBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Darian KinnardAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Nick SaldiveriAmerican football player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Joseph EllisAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Jesse Lynch WilliamsAmerican dramatist
- René DubosAmerican microbiologist
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Carleton’s cards
Computed from December 24, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carleton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17916859 (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 Carleton Mabee at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carleton Mabee.
Quick answers about Carleton Mabee’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carleton Mabee?
- Carleton Mabee was a Capricorn: born December 24, 1914, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Carleton Mabee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1914 birth.
- What was Carleton Mabee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Carleton Mabee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Carleton Mabee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Carleton Mabee's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
