Caroline Thompson
Caroline Thompson (born April 23, 1956, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 70, is an American writer. Thompson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Caroline Thompson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Caroline
Caroline Thompson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1956, Caroline came 329th, carried by 702 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Caroline’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
The record
What sets Caroline apart
Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) 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 the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Caroline is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Caroline cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Caroline needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Caroline wants to be loved
Caroline wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Caroline like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Caroline creates
How Caroline makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Caroline creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Caroline is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Caroline is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Caroline goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Thompson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Caroline's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand cross
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Caroline Thompson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Caroline Thompson was born on April 23, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Caroline Thompson's birth date, April 23, 1956, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Caroline’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Caroline Thompson's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Caroline Thompson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Caroline’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Libra 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.3° orb
Caroline’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Caroline’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMars1.9° to 2.2° orb
Caroline’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 5.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Caroline’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 24°37′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°55′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 27°10′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.8°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.6°
Caroline’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Caroline’s chart
Grand cross · Sun, Neptune, Mars, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.1°
More people like Caroline
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on April 23
- Max Planck1858
- Halldór Laxness1902
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- Chloe Kim2000
- Valerie Bertinelli1960
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- Tom KimSouth Korean professional golfer
- Emma MyersAmerican actress (born 2002)
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- Dan BurnEnglish association football player (born 1992)
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Other Gilded Guardians
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- Yang HansenChinese basketball player (born 2005)
- Jaxson HayesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Trevi MoranAmerican musician
Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Caroline’s cards
Computed from April 23, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Caroline’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273712 (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.
The same Caroline Thompson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Caroline Thompson.
Quick answers about Caroline Thompson’s chart
- How old is Caroline Thompson?
- Caroline Thompson is 70 years old, born April 23, 1956 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Caroline Thompson?
- Caroline Thompson is a Taurus: born April 23, 1956, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Caroline Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1956 birth.
- What is Caroline Thompson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Caroline Thompson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Caroline Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Caroline Thompson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
