Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955, Glasgow, United Kingdom), aged 70, is a Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955). Duffy is best known for The World's Wife. Duffy's honours include Somerset Maugham Award, T. S. Eliot Prize and Cholmondeley Award.
Carol Ann Duffy’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Carol
Carol Ann Duffy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Carol in the U.S.?
#2242
US rank in 2025
~825,584
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
Carol ranked 15th among girls and 829th among boys in 1955, the year of this birth, with 22,046 American girls and 78 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carol’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 6: voice against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carol’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
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 Carol apart
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Carol, according to the stars
Core essence
Carol is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Carol 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Carol runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Carol needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Carol wants to be loved
Carol wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Carol you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Carol creates
How Carol makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Carol creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Carol 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Carol 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 Carol leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Carol runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Carol's birth date. Working below.
Where Carol sits
Six lines
Carol’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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
Dedicate a star to Carol Ann Duffy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow 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 Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Glasgow was Miram, in Perseus, 89.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 55.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Glasgow at all: they sit past the −34.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 66% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Carol's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 3 planets at a critical degree · T-square onto Neptune
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Carol Ann Duffy's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Carol Ann Duffy's birth date, December 23, 1955, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Carol’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carol Ann Duffy's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carol Ann Duffy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Carol’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.1° to 1.1° orb
Carol’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.3° to 1.6° orb
Carol’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb
Carol’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.4° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Carol’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 3°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 7°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 21°53′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°46′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.0°
Carol’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Carol’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · 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.
T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
More people like Carol
Other writers
- Percival Everett1956
- Bruce Sterling1954
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Alan Hollinghurst1954
- Robert Reed1956
- Louise Erdrich1954
Born in United Kingdom
- Miranda RichardsonBritish actress
- Delroy LindoBritish-born American actor (born 1952)
- Tony AbbottPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
- Ciarán HindsNorthern Irish actor
- Stephen FryBritish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- David LangfordBritish writer
More charts like Carol’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Kit HaringtonBritish actor
- Katalin KarikóHungarian biochemist
- Sienna MillerBritish-American actress
Born in Goat years
- Alexander ToddBritish biochemist and Nobel laureate
- Betty WilliamsNorthern Irish peace activist
- Joseph MurrayUS surgeon
Also born on December 23
- Finn Wolfhard2002
- Eddie Vedder1964
- Madam C. J. Walker1867
- Holly Madison1979
- Justin Olam1993
- Corey Haim1971
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Netumbo Nandi-NdaitwahNamibian politician
- Levi StraussGerman-Jewish-born American businessman
- Rosie O'DonnellAmerican comedian, producer, actress, and television personality
Other Capricorn Goat charts
- Louis TomlinsonEnglish singer and songwriter
- Logan LermanAmerican actor
- Paul KeatingAustralian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
- Jason SegelAmerican actor
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Marques BrownleeAmerican technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality
- TommyInnitBritish YouTuber and streamer
- Bhuvan BamIndian YouTuber
- Ludwig AhgrenAmerican YouTuber and streamer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Salman RushdieIndian-born English and American novelist
- Arthur C. ClarkeBritish science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
- George ClooneyAmerican-French actor and filmmaker
From the journal: Do twins have the same birth chart? · Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why
Carol’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carol’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237994 (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 walnut whippet from Hull, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carol Ann Duffy at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carol Ann Duffy.
Quick answers about Carol Ann Duffy’s chart
- How old is Carol Ann Duffy?
- Carol Ann Duffy is 70 years old, born December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Carol Ann Duffy?
- Carol Ann Duffy is a Capricorn: born December 23, 1955, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1955 birth.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carol Ann Duffy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
