Carolyn Cole
Carolyn Cole (born April 24, 1961, Boulder, United States), aged 65, is an American photojournalist (born 1961). Cole's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, George Polk Award and Robert Capa Gold Medal.
Carolyn Cole’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Carolyn Cole’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Carolyn in the U.S.?
#1222
US rank in 2025
~558,397
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Carolyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Carolyn, according to the stars
Core essence
Carolyn 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 Carolyn 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.
How Carolyn wants to be loved
Carolyn wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Carolyn creates
How Carolyn makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Carolyn creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Carolyn is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carolyn 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Carolyn does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Carolyn's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Carolyn Cole's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Carolyn Cole was born on April 24, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Carolyn Cole's birth date, April 24, 1961, 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 Carolyn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carolyn Cole's date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Carolyn Cole 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.
Carolyn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carolyn Cole, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.4° orb
Carolyn’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableSuntrinePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
Carolyn’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb
Carolyn’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 2.7° orb
Carolyn’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.4° to 4.4° orb
Carolyn’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 5.7° orb
Carolyn’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.1° orb
Carolyn’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Carolyn’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
Carolyn’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.6° orb
Carolyn’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
Carolyn’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.0° orb
Carolyn’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Carolyn’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Carolyn absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 15°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Carolyn looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 11°24′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Carolyn is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 28°58′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Carolyn carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Carolyn is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.1°
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°).
Carolyn’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. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Carolyn is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Carolyn’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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.0°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carolyn Cole, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on April 24
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Carolyn’s cards
Every card is computed from April 24, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carolyn Cole, 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
Carolyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q451616, 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 Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carolyn Cole at Wikipedia and X.
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 Carolyn Cole.
Quick answers about Carolyn Cole’s chart
- How old is Carolyn Cole?
- Carolyn Cole is 65 years old, born April 24, 1961 in Boulder, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carolyn Cole?
- Carolyn Cole is a Taurus: born April 24, 1961, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Carolyn Cole's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1961 birth.
- What time was Carolyn Cole 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 Carolyn Cole's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 24, 1961 birth date.
- What is Carolyn Cole's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 24, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Carolyn Cole's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carolyn Cole's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
