Carol Shields
Carol Shields (born June 2, 1935, Oak Park, United States; died 2003), was an American/Canadian author. Shields is best remembered for The Stone Diaries, Unless and Larry's Party. Shields's honours include Companion of the Order of Canada, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Carol Shields’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Pig, with 
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Carol Shields’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Carol in the U.S.?
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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
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Carol needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Carol wants to be loved
Carol wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Carol gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Carol creates
How Carol makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Carol creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Carol is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Carol is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Carol fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Carol's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carol sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Carol Shields's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 2, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Carol Shields was born on June 2, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Carol Shields's birth date, June 2, 1935, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Carol’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carol Shields' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
- Carol Shields combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Carol’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carol Shields, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Carol’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Carol’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb
Carol’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.0° to 1.4° orb
Carol’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.9° orb
Carol’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineMars3.3° to 4.1° orb
Carol’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Carol’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars4.9° to 5.2° orb
Carol’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.6° to 5.7° orb
Carol’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 3.2° to 15.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 10°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Carol turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLeo 9°22′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Carol is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosPisces 2°38′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Carol is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 25°55′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Carol feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Carol exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.8°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 3.0°
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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Carol is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Neptune, SunAn 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carol Shields, 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 June 2, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carol Shields, 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 Q259956, 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.
The same Carol Shields at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Shields.
Quick answers about Carol Shields’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carol Shields?
- Carol Shields was a Gemini: born June 2, 1935, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig.
- What was Carol Shields's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 2, 1935 birth.
- What time was Carol Shields 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 Shields's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 2, 1935 birth date.
- What was Carol Shields's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 2, 1935 birth date.
- Where was Carol Shields's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Carol Shields's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
