Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw (born August 1, 1982, Greenville, United States), aged 44, is an American composer, violinist, and singer. Shaw is best known for Partita for 8 Voices. Shaw's honours include Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
Caroline Shaw’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Caroline
Caroline Shaw’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Caroline in the U.S.?
#96
US rank in 2025
~250,719
Americans share it since 1880
2000
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,537 American girls and 7 boys named Caroline in 1982: 178th among girls and 5,094th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Caroline’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Caroline’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Caroline apart
Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Caroline, according to the stars
Core essence
Caroline is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Caroline is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Caroline wants to be loved
Caroline 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. Caroline gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Caroline creates
How Caroline makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Caroline creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Caroline is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Caroline is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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. Caroline fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Caroline's birth date. Working below.
Where Caroline sits
Six lines
Caroline’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Caroline Shaw
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greenville 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 Greenville that night
Computed for 35.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Greenville at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 14.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Greenville sits at 35.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 93% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Caroline's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Caroline Shaw's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Dog
Water DogWorries so you don't have to.
Caroline Shaw was born on August 1, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Caroline Shaw's birth date, August 1, 1982, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Caroline’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Caroline Shaw's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Caroline Shaw combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Caroline’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Caroline’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Caroline’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
Caroline’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.8° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 2.7° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.9° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Caroline’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°13′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°09′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 24°37′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 28°16′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.7°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
Caroline’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Caroline’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 quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
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More charts like Caroline’s
Fellow Leo suns
- John B. GoodenoughAmerican materials scientist
- Anne L'HuillierFrench physicist
- Giorgio ParisiItalian physicist (1948-)
Born in Dog years
- Nolan TraoréFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Hannes SteinbachGerman basketball player (born 2006)
- Chris Cenac Jr.American basketball player (born 2007)
Also born on August 1
- Georges Charpak1924
- Yves Saint Laurent1936
- Jason Momoa1979
- Coolio1963
- Ray Dalio1949
- Riccardo Tisci1974
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Steve Breencartoonist
- Jericho BrownAmerican writer
- Keyes BeechAmerican journalist
Other Leo Dog charts
- Mark SallingAmerican actor and musician
- Kevin SmithAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
- Malcolm-Jamal WarnerAmerican actor
- Vernon DobtcheffBritish actor
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Karl Barry SharplessAmerican chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist
- Anwar SadatPresident of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Daniel YerginAmerican author and speaker (born 1947)
- Alan DuganAmerican poet
- Tad MoselAmerican playwright
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Caroline’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1982. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Caroline’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15430653 (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 Feast of Music, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Caroline Shaw 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 Caroline Shaw.
Quick answers about Caroline Shaw’s chart
- How old is Caroline Shaw?
- Caroline Shaw is 44 years old, born August 1, 1982 in Greenville, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Caroline Shaw?
- Caroline Shaw is a Leo: born August 1, 1982, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Caroline Shaw's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1982 birth.
- What is Caroline Shaw's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Caroline Shaw's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Caroline Shaw's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Caroline Shaw's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
