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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Carolyn
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
Of the names registered in 1925, Carolyn came 127th among girls and 2,962nd among boys, carried by 2,189 American girls and 9 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carolyn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
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
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 1925, 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 Kizer took the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985, at 60.
Lewis and Clark High School and Sarah Lawrence College shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as dementia.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Carolyn Kizer: San Jose State University faculty, Deaths from dementia in California and Bullitt family.
Ada Lovelace (1815) and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lewis and Clark High School, Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University
- Awards
- Robert Frost Medal (1988), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1985) and Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988)
- Cause of death
- dementia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
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. Working below.
Where Carolyn sits
Six lines
Carolyn’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Kizer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Spokane 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 Spokane that night
Computed for 47.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Spokane at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 47.7°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Spokane at all: they sit past the −42.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 25% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Spokane, United States
- Lived in
- Paris
Wikidata records Paris as Carolyn Kizer's home, against Spokane as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Sonoma, Sonoma County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Carolyn Kizer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Carolyn's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° 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
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
stableJupitersextileUranus2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune6.0° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°03′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 25°26′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°48′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 22°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Carolyn’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Carolyn’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Carolyn
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Born in United States
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- Claude SittonAmerican journalist
- Dick Van DykeAmerican actor and comedian (born 1925)
- Julie HarrisAmerican actress
- W. D. SnodgrassAmerican poet
- Martin RodbellAmerican biochemist
More charts like Carolyn’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Michael BatesBritish actor
- Desmond DubeSouth African actor
- Tom HulceAmerican actor and producer
Born in Ox years
- Walter LippmannAmerican journalist and political commentator
- Frank D. GilroyAmerican playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director
- Morton GouldAmerican composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
Also born on December 10
- Ada Lovelace1815
- Gonzalo Higuaín1987
- Teyana Taylor1990
- Raven-Symoné1985
- Amanda Anka1968
- Michael Clarke Duncan1957
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Anthony JoshuaBritish boxer
- Vera WangAmerican fashion designer
- Howard SternAmerican radio and television personality
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
- Simon van der MeerDutch physicist
- Eric Allin CornellAmerican physicist, professor (born 1961)
- Edgar Douglas AdrianEnglish electrophysiologist
- Ferdinand BuissonFrench academic and politician
Other Steadfast Healers
- Laurent LafforgueFrench mathematician
- Lars HörmanderSwedish mathematician
- Wolfgang Pauliphysicist, Nobel prize winner
- Paul D. BoyerAmerican biochemist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Ron DeSantisAmerican politician (born 1978)
- Fidel CastroCuban politician, author and revolutionary
- Ruben GallegoAmerican politician (born 1979)
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Carolyn’s cards
Computed from December 10, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carolyn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q440064 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carolyn Kizer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carolyn Kizer.
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.
- 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 was Carolyn Kizer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Carolyn Kizer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
