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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
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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.
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~825,584
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Carol’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Carol Ann Duffy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Carol’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Carol’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.5° orb
Carol’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.5° orb
Carol’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Carol’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
Carol’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSuntrinePluto1.9° to 2.9° orb
Carol’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.0° orb
Carol’s growth and depths act as one.
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
Carol’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 3°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Carol making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 7°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Carol is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 21°53′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Carol is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°46′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Carol is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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. Carol 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. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Carol’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Carol is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Carol’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carol Ann Duffy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Carol’s cards
Every card is computed from December 23, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Carol Ann Duffy, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Carol’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237994, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- 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 time was Carol Ann Duffy born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 23, 1955 birth date.
- What is Carol Ann Duffy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 23, 1955 birth date.
- 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.
