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, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carole
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 1901
1942
its peak year
Carole ranked 35th among girls and 1,217th among boys in 1942, the year of this birth, with 8,407 American girls and 33 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carole’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Carole apart
J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Carole sits
Six lines
Carole’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Carole King
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.5° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
The Moon, 34% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
How unusual Carole's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · No Water planets · Venus retrograde
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableVenustrineJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.8° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.9° to 6.5° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.9° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 10°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°33′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°37′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Carole’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Carole’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
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Born in United States
- Barry B. LongyearAmerican writer
- Sally KirklandAmerican actress, film producer, and activist
- Tony AuthAmerican cartoonist
- Art GarfunkelAmerican singer
- Barbra StreisandAmerican singer and actress
- David GreenAmerican businessman, founder of Hobby Lobby, born 1941
More charts like Carole’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Bob IgerAmerican businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- Rick JamesAmerican singer, songwriter and record producer
- Avan JogiaCanadian actor, singer and director
Born in Snake years
- Óscar Arias SánchezPresident of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
- Hans SpemannGerman embryologist
- Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic
Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
- Tom Hiddleston1981
- Sócrates1954
- Michael B. Jordan1987
- Bella Poarch1997
- Gina Rinehart1954
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Tommy TownsendAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Kylen GransonAmerican football tight end
- Daniel BellingerAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Aquarius Snake charts
- Dick CheneyVice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Christie BrinkleyAmerican model and actress
- Jake PavelkaAmerican pilot who appeared on four reality TV programs
- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Barbara CookAmerican actress and singer
- Xaver SchlagerAustrian association football player
- Ferdi KadıoğluTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Ismaïla SarrSenegalese association football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Robert ShawBritish actor and writer
- Brad DourifAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Anthony DawsonBritish actor
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Carole’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217787 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Carole King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carole King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
