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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956, Beverly Hills, United States, 12:49; died 2016), was an American actress, writer and screenwriter. Notable films include Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back and When Harry Met Sally. Fisher's honours include Disney Legends.

Carrie Fisher’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Carrie Fisher’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Carrie in the U.S.?

#2726

US rank in 2025

~267,540

Americans share it since 1880

1977

its peak year

Carrie ranked 208th among girls and 3,257th among boys in 1956, the year of this birth, with 1,529 American girls and 7 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Carrie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (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

Carrie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 Carrie apart

Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
French and English

What the chart says

Carrie, according to the stars

Core essence

Carrie makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Carrie is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Carrie is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Carrie needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Carrie wants to be loved

Carrie wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Carrie and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Carrie creates

How Carrie makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Carrie creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Carrie 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 7 is the seeker. Carrie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Carrie slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Carrie's birth date. Working below.

Where Carrie sits

Six lines

Carrie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Carrie

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Carrie

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Carrie

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Carrie

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Carrie

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Carrie

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Beverly Hills at 12:49, Carrie Fisher’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Beverly Hills that night

Computed for 34.07°N, at the documented birth time.

Izar stood nearest the zenith over Beverly Hills at the birth hour, 82.6° above the horizon in Boötes.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Beverly Hills at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 95% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -42° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Beverly Hills, United States

The death is recorded at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Los Angeles in 2016.

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What Carrie's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Breaker 破軍 in 辰

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree

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.

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Carrie Fisher in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Carrie Fisher's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.

What Libra means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Carrie Fisher was born on October 21, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Carrie Fisher's birth date, October 21, 1956, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Carrie’s chart

Carrie’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.1° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.8° orbVenus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 4.2° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 5° orbSun in Libra · 28°26′ · house 10☉28°Moon in Taurus · 25°04′ · house 5☽25°Mercury in Libra · 14°17′ · house 10☿14°Venus in Virgo · 18°12′ · house 9♀18°Mars in Pisces · 14°01′ · house 3♂14°Jupiter in Virgo · 21°58′ · house 9♃21°Saturn in Sagittarius · 1°09′ · house 12♄1°Uranus in Leo · 6°47′ · house 8♅6°Neptune in Scorpio · 0°05′ · house 11♆0°Pluto in Virgo · 0°02′ · house 9♇0°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 27°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 27°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 16°35′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 16°35′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb

    Carrie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb

    Carrie’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SunsextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb

    Carrie’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • SunconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 3.1° orb

  • VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 3.8° orb

  • VenusoppositionMarsseparating · 4.2° orb

  • MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 5.0° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.1° orb

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 6.7° orb

  • MoontrineVenusseparating · 6.9° orb

  • MarsoppositionJupiterseparating · 8.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Carrie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 6°27′ · House 2

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 10°41′ · House 4

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 27°40′ · House 1

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°03′ · House 1

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°47′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Ascendant 0.4°
  • Eros square Sun 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Moon 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.1°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.4°
  • Eros trine Moon 2.6°

Carrie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Carrie’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Moon, Saturn, PlutoAn 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 semi-square Uranus 0.2°
  • Moon quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Mars 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Moon quintile Mars 0.9°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mars biquintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.9°

Carrie’s houses

Carrie’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 12emptyself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Leo, house 8emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 11Marsmind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Pisces, house 3emptyhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Virgo, house 9Mooncreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Libra, house 10emptywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Taurus, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Libra, house 10Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Libra, house 10Venus, Jupiter, Plutobelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Virgo, house 9Sun, Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 9Neptunefriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 9Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Carrie’s family here

3 relatives of Carrie Fisher also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Carrie’s cards

Computed from October 21, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Carrie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108941 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by By Riccardo Ghilardi - Crop of File:Actress Carrie Fisher © Riccardo Ghilardi photographer.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55103929, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Carrie Fisher at Wikipedia, carriefisher.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carrie Fisher.

Quick answers about Carrie Fisher’s chart

What zodiac sign was Carrie Fisher?
Carrie Fisher was a Libra: born October 21, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
What was Carrie Fisher's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1956 birth.
What time was Carrie Fisher born?
12:49 local time in Beverly Hills, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Carrie Fisher's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 12:49 birth time in Beverly Hills, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Carrie Fisher?
Carrie Fisher was 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Carrie Fisher's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Carrie Fisher's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 6°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Carrie Fisher's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Carrie Fisher's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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