Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Kizer (born December 10, 1925, Spokane, United States; died 2014), was an American poet. Kizer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pushcart Prize and Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.
Carolyn Kizer’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Carolyn Kizer’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Carolyn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
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What the chart says
Carolyn, according to the stars
Core essence
Carolyn is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Carolyn is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Carolyn 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 Carolyn 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 Carolyn wants to be loved
Carolyn wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Carolyn be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Carolyn creates
How Carolyn makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Carolyn creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Carolyn 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Carolyn runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Carolyn's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Carolyn Kizer's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Carolyn Kizer was born on December 10, 1925, which falls in a Wood 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 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Carolyn Kizer's birth date, December 10, 1925, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Carolyn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carolyn Kizer's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Carolyn Kizer combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Carolyn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Carolyn Kizer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Libra 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.6° to 2.0° orb
Carolyn’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.8° to 3.2° orb
Carolyn’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb
Carolyn’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 2.6° orb
Carolyn’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.4° to 2.7° orb
Carolyn’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
Carolyn’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.6° orb
Carolyn’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb
Carolyn’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.8° to 5.1° orb
Carolyn’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.5° orb
Carolyn’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
Carolyn’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune6.0° to 7.0° orb
Carolyn’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°03′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Carolyn may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 25°26′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Carolyn is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 2°48′ (moves 0.82° 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 ℞Cancer 22°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Carolyn is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°55′ (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 square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros square 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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Carolyn is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Carolyn Kizer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Carolyn’s cards
Every card is computed from December 10, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Carolyn Kizer, 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 Q440064, 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.
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The same Carolyn Kizer at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Carolyn Kizer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Carolyn Kizer?
- Carolyn Kizer was a Sagittarius: born December 10, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Carolyn Kizer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 10, 1925 birth.
- What time was Carolyn Kizer 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 was Carolyn Kizer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 10, 1925 birth date.
- What was Carolyn Kizer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 10, 1925 birth date.
- Where was Carolyn Kizer'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 was Carolyn Kizer's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
