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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carolyn
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
Of the names registered in 1961, Carolyn came 42nd among girls and 1,606th among boys, carried by 10,509 American girls and 25 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carolyn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carolyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Carolyn apart
Carolyn Cole took the George Polk Award in 2003, at 42.
Moody College of Communication and Fort Hunt High School shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Carolyn Cole: Photographers from California, Artists from Los Angeles and American women photojournalists.
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Moody College of Communication, Fort Hunt High School and University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (2004), George Polk Award (2003) and Robert Capa Gold Medal (2003)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
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. Working below.
Where Carolyn sits
Six lines
Carolyn’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Carolyn Cole
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boulder 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 Boulder that night
Computed for 40.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Boulder at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boulder on any night.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 71% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Carolyn's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.4° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 15°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 11°24′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 28°58′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Carolyn’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Carolyn’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.0°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.0°
More people like Carolyn
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Born in United States
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More charts like Carolyn’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Jeffrey Dean MorganAmerican actor
- J BalvinColombian singer
- Samantha MortonBritish actress
Born in Ox years
- Martina GedeckGerman actress and voice actress
- Lorraine GaryAmerican actress
- Robert CarlyleScottish actor
Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- Kelly Clarkson1982
- Josep Borrell1947
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Jean-Paul Gaultier1952
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Thomas Huckle WellerAmerican virologist
- Fraser StoddartScottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
- Moungi BawendiAmerican chemist of French and Tunisian descent
Other Taurus Ox charts
- Anfernee JenningsAmerican football outside linebacker
- DeShon ElliottAmerican football player (born 1984)
- Ashton DulinAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Clelin FerrellAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Oliver ReedBritish actor
- Peter CushingBritish actor
- Paul FreemanEnglish actor
- Desmond DubeSouth African actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Shane BuecheleAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Zach AllenAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Drew SampleAmerican football player (born 1996)
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Carolyn’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carolyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q451616 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Carolyn Cole's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carolyn Cole's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
