Carol Channing
Carol Channing (born January 31, 1921, Seattle, United States; died 2019), was an American actress. Channing's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Special Tony Award.
Carol Channing’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carol
Carol Channing’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 166th among girls and 568th among boys in 1921, the year of this birth, with 1,374 American girls and 124 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
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
9 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Carol apart
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) 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 two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Carol is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Carol feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Carol needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Carol wants to be loved
Carol wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Carol, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Carol creates
How Carol makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Carol builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Carol is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carol is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Carol slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Carol Channing
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle 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 Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Seattle at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 47.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 37% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.
How unusual Carol's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Carol Channing's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Carol Channing was born on January 31, 1921, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Carol Channing's birth date, January 31, 1921, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Carol’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carol Channing's date-only chart is Sun opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carol Channing combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Carol’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Scorpio 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.0° orb
Carol’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb
Carol’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.4° to 3.2° orb
Carol’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.3° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Carol’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 6°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 26°13′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°25′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 2°52′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Ceres square Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.1°
Carol’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Carol’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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.1°
More people like Carol
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- Ralph Meeker1920
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- Teresa Wright1918
Born in United States
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- Ray BradburyAmerican author and screenwriter
- Harold NicholasAmerican dancer
- Ralph MeekerAmerican actor
- Alex HaleyAmerican biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
- Owen ChamberlainAmerican physicist
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- Brandon LeeAmerican actor
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- Paul MescalIrish actor
Born in Monkey years
- Miloš FormanCzech American director, screenwriter, and professor
- Christine KaufmannGerman actress and businesswoman
- Eileen BrennanAmerican actress and singer
Also born on January 31
- Justin Timberlake1981
- Kerry Washington1977
- Julián Alvarez2000
- Portia de Rossi1973
- Master KG1996
- Brooke Monk2003
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Tom FeltonBritish actor, singer and musician
- Jocelyn Bell BurnellBritish astrophysicist
- MartaBrazilian footballer
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Elijah WoodAmerican actor
- Gabriel BatistutaArgentine association football player
- Josh BrolinAmerican actor
- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Atthaya ThitikulThai professional golfer
- Maleah Joi MoonAmerican singer and actress
- Inde NavarretteAmerican actress (born 2001)
- JVKEAmerican singer and producer
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Josephine HullAmerican stage and film actress
- Klaus Maria BrandauerAustrian actor and director
- Chaim TopolIsraeli actor
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Carol’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carol’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q237287 (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 Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carol Channing 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 Channing.
Quick answers about Carol Channing’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carol Channing?
- Carol Channing was an Aquarius: born January 31, 1921, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Carol Channing's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1921 birth.
- What was Carol Channing's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Carol Channing's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Carol Channing's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Carol Channing's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
