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Carmen De Lavallade

Carmen De Lavallade (born March 6, 1931, Los Angeles, United States; died 2025), was an American dancer. Lavallade's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Bessie Awards and Capezio Dance Award.

Carmen De Lavallade’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Carmen De Lavallade’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Carmen in the U.S.?

#389

US rank in 2025

~159,756

Americans share it since 1881

1960

its peak year

The SSA recorded 934 American girls and 246 boys named Carmen in 1931: 196th among girls and 352nd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carmen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Carmen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Carmen apart

The Bessie Awards came in 2006, when Carmen De Lavallade was 75.

Carmen De Lavallade was taught at Jefferson High School (Los Angeles).

Carmen De Lavallade was 17 when the work began in 1948.

Carmen De Lavallade was born to Lavallade and married Geoffrey Holder.

Wikipedia files Carmen De Lavallade under David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University faculty, African-American women choreographers and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancers.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927) and Valentina Tereshkova (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Jefferson High School (Los Angeles)
Awards
Bessie Awards (2006), Kennedy Center Honors (2017) and Capezio Dance Award (2007)
Working from
1948
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
16

What the chart says

Carmen, according to the stars

Core essence

Carmen feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Carmen is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Carmen cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Carmen needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Carmen wants to be loved

Carmen wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Carmen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Carmen creates

How Carmen makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Carmen 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: Carmen is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Carmen is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Carmen does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Carmen's birth date. Working below.

Where Carmen sits

Six lines

Carmen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Carmen

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carmen

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Carmen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carmen

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Carmen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carmen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Carmen De Lavallade

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Carmen’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 82.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 55.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Gemini.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 89% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Los Angeles, United States

The death is recorded at Englewood, Bergen County in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Carmen De Lavallade: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Carmen's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Pluto · Mars retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Carmen De Lavallade's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 6, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Goat

Kind, and quietly tough.

Carmen De Lavallade was born on March 6, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Carmen De Lavallade's birth date, March 6, 1931, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Carmen’s chart

Carmen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.2° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbVenus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.6° orbSun in Pisces · 15°17′☉15°Moon in Libra · 19°01′☽19°Mercury in Pisces · 7°13′☿7°Venus in Aquarius · 1°03′♀1°Mars in Cancer · 27°27′ · retrograde♂℞27°Jupiter in Cancer · 10°27′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Capricorn · 20°42′♄20°Uranus in Aries · 13°39′♅13°Neptune in Virgo · 4°07′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Cancer · 18°50′ · retrograde♇℞18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Carmen’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.2° to 4.0° orb

    Carmen’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 4.1° orb

    Carmen’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars3.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Carmen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 14°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 13°41′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Virgo 6°51′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 7°54′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.0°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.4°
  • Eros opposition Mercury 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.5°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 2.7°

Carmen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Carmen’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.

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°

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Carmen’s cards

Computed from March 6, 1931. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carmen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2939599 (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 U.S. State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carmen De Lavallade at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about Carmen De Lavallade’s chart

What zodiac sign was Carmen De Lavallade?
Carmen De Lavallade was a Pisces: born March 6, 1931, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Carmen De Lavallade's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 6, 1931 birth.
What was Carmen De Lavallade's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Carmen De Lavallade's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Carmen De Lavallade's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Carmen De Lavallade's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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