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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Carlos’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carlos sits
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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.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Carlos Santana's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
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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
Carlos’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarssextileSaturnseparating · 3.1° orb
Carlos’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
MoonsextileUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
Carlos’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 3.3° orb
Carlos’s affections flow straight into their growth.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.9° orb
Carlos’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
Carlos’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarstrineNeptuneseparating · 5.2° orb
Carlos’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 5.2° orb
Carlos’s growth grinds against their depths.
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 6.1° orb
Carlos’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°37′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Carlos carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°16′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Carlos is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°45′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Carlos attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°10′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Carlos needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°04′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Carlos is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.7°
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°).
Carlos’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Carlos is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Carlos’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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 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.
- 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
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 |
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| 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 with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Carlos’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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 data comes from
Carlos’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q819016, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- 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 from the July 20, 1947 birth date.
- What is Carlos Santana's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1947 birth time.
- 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.
