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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Carol’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Carol sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Carol

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carol

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Carol

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carol

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Carol

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carol

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

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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ideas 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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Metal Monkey

Turns problems into games.

Carol Channing was born on January 31, 1921, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Carol Channing's birth date, January 31, 1921, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Carol’s chart

Carol’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Carol Channing, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.8° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.8° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.6° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°26′11°Moon in Scorpio · 22°51′22°Mercury in Aquarius · 22°03′22°Venus in Pisces · 27°56′27°Mars in Pisces · 20°31′20°Jupiter in Virgo · 17°41′ · retrograde17°Saturn in Virgo · 24°08′ · retrograde24°Uranus in Pisces · 4°17′Neptune in Leo · 12°24′ · retrograde12°Pluto in Cancer · 7°14′ · retrograde

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.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Carol’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb

    Carol’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.0° orb

    Carol’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 6.5° orb

    Carol’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars7.3° to 7.6° orb

    Carol’s affections and drive act as one.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironAries 6°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Carol may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresGemini 26°13′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Carol feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosCapricorn 11°25′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Carol is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaVirgo 2°52′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Carol is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°17′ (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 orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 1. Uranus6 pts

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

  2. 2. Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Carol is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carol Channing, 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 January 31, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yang Metal

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Carol Channing, 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 Q237287, 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 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. 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
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 time was Carol Channing 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 was Carol Channing's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 31, 1921 birth date.
What was Carol Channing's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 31, 1921 birth date.
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.

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