Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942, Manhattan, United States), aged 84, is an American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1942). King's honours include Grammy Trustees Award, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Carole King’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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Carole King’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Carole in the U.S.?
#10258
US rank in 2025
~110,952
Americans share it since 1880
1942
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Carole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Carole, according to the stars
Core essence
Carole is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Carole 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.
How Carole wants to be loved
Carole wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Carole be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Carole creates
How Carole makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Carole creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Carole is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carole 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Carole is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Carole's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Carole sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Carole King's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1942, 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.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Carole King was born on February 9, 1942, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Carole King's birth date, February 9, 1942, 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 Carole’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carole King's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carole King combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Carole’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carole King, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.7° orb
Carole’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb
Carole’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.4° to 1.6° orb
Carole’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb
Carole’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
Carole’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
Carole’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
Carole’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.1° orb
Carole’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareMars4.8° to 5.3° orb
Carole’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Carole’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareMars4.9° to 6.5° orb
Carole’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.9° to 6.0° orb
Carole’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Carole’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 10°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Carole performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°33′ (moves 0.39° 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. Carole is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°37′ (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. Carole is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Carole is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Carole that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Carole’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. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Carole 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 Carole’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 Aquarius · 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.
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.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carole King, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Carole’s cards
Every card is computed from February 9, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carole King, 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
Carole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217787, 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 Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carole King at Wikipedia, caroleking.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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 Carole King.
Quick answers about Carole King’s chart
- How old is Carole King?
- Carole King is 84 years old, born February 9, 1942 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carole King?
- Carole King is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- What is Carole King's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1942 birth.
- What time was Carole King 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 Carole King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 9, 1942 birth date.
- What is Carole King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 9, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Carole King's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carole King's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
