Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947, Autlán de Navarro, Mexico, 02:00), aged 79, is an American guitarist. Best-known releases include Love Devotion Surrender, Blues for Salvador and Havana Moon. Santana's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Billboard Spirit of Hope Award and Great Immigrants Award.
Carlos Santana’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Carlos
Carlos Santana’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Carlos in the U.S.?
#150
US rank in 2025
~309,076
Americans share it since 1880
2001
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,032 American boys and 7 girls named Carlos in 1947: 197th among boys and 4,410th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carlos’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carlos’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Carlos apart
The Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year came in 2004, when Carlos Santana was 57.
Carlos Santana was taught at Hempstead High School.
Carlos Santana was 18 when the work began in 1965.
The family line: married Deborah Santana and Cindy Blackman and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Carlos Santana under Chicano rock musicians, Guitarists from San Francisco and Fania All-Stars members.
Gerd Binnig shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Hempstead High School
- Instruments
- guitar, percussion instrument and voice
- Awards
- American Book Awards (2015), California Hall of Fame (2011) and Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year (2004)
- Working from
- 1965
- Citizenship
- United States and Mexico
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Carlos, according to the stars
Core essence
Carlos feels the room before entering it. The core of Carlos is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Carlos, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Carlos needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Carlos needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Carlos wants to be loved
Carlos wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Carlos gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Carlos creates
How Carlos makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Carlos 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: Carlos 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Carlos 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Carlos scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Carlos's birth date. Working below.
Where Carlos sits
Six lines
Carlos’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Carlos Santana
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Autlán de Navarro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Autlán de Navarro at 02:00, Carlos Santana’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Autlán de Navarro that night
Computed for 19.77°N, at the documented birth time.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Autlán de Navarro at the birth hour, 75.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Autlán de Navarro sits at 19.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
What Carlos's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Enforcer 廉貞, The Minister 天相 in 午
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
76 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Carlos Santana's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Carlos Santana was born on July 20, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Carlos Santana's birth date, July 20, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Carlos’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Carlos Santana's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Carlos Santana's timed chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Carlos Santana combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Carlos’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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 0.6° orb
Carlos’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarssextilePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Carlos’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb
Carlos’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 2.1° orb
MarssextileSaturnseparating · 3.1° orb
MoonsextileUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 3.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
MarstrineNeptuneseparating · 5.2° orb
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 5.2° orb
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Carlos’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°37′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°16′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°45′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°10′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°04′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.7°
Carlos’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto
Configurations in Carlos’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.- Stellium in Leo · Moon, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Moon 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Carlos’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 3 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | Mars, Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 4 | Sun, Mercury, Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 3 | Moon, Saturn, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 3 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 4 | Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 2 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Carlos
Gerd Binnig was born on July 20, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 83 catalog stars stood above Autlán de Navarro, at 19.8°N that night, with Aljanah nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Gilded Diplomats
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- Vivien LeighBritish actress
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From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Carlos’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carlos’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q819016 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Carlos Santana.jpg: Jaud derivative work: Yarl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carlos Santana at Wikipedia, santana.com, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carlos Santana.
Quick answers about Carlos Santana’s chart
- How old is Carlos Santana?
- Carlos Santana is 79 years old, born July 20, 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico.
- What zodiac sign is Carlos Santana?
- Carlos Santana is a Cancer: born July 20, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What is Carlos Santana's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1947 birth.
- What time was Carlos Santana born?
- 02:00 local time in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Carlos Santana's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 02:00 birth time in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Carlos Santana's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carlos Santana's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carlos Santana's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carlos Santana's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
