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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dog, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Caroline’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Caroline sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greenville 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.
Caroline Shaw in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Caroline Shaw, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Caroline’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.1° to 4.7° orb
Caroline’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.9° orb
Caroline’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.3° orb
Caroline’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.8° to 7.9° orb
Caroline’s growth and depths act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°13′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Caroline building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°09′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Caroline is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 24°37′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Caroline is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLeo 28°16′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Caroline at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°37′ (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. Caroline 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 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Caroline’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Caroline is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Caroline’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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Caroline Shaw, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Caroline’s cards
Every card is computed from August 1, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Caroline Shaw, 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
Caroline’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15430653, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
- 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 time was Caroline Shaw 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 Caroline Shaw's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the August 1, 1982 birth date.
- What is Caroline Shaw's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 1, 1982 birth date.
- 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.
