Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935, The Bronx, United States; died 2019), was an American actress, singer, model and activist. Carroll's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Diahann Carroll’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Diahann
Diahann Carroll’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Diahann in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~354
Americans share it since 1948
1969
its peak year
Diahann is in US records from 1948, but 1935 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1969.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Diahann’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Diahann’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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 1935, 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 Diahann apart
Diahann Carroll took the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1962, at 27.
Training came by way of High School of Music & Art and New York University.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer; the grave is at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Diahann Carroll was married Monte Kay and Vic Damone.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Diahann Carroll: Deaths from breast cancer in California, Baptists from New York (state) and New York University College of Arts & Science alumni.
The same date carries Donald Sutherland. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- High School of Music & Art and New York University
- Awards
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1976), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Television Series Musical or Comedy (1968) and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1962)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Academy Award for Best Actress
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Buried at
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
What the chart says
Diahann, according to the stars
Core essence
Diahann feels the room before entering it. The core of Diahann is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Diahann, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Diahann needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Diahann needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Diahann wants to be loved
Diahann 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 Diahann and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Diahann creates
How Diahann makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Diahann builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Diahann is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Diahann is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Diahann fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Diahann's birth date. Working below.
Where Diahann sits
Six lines
Diahann’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Diahann Carroll
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 14.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
The Moon, 95% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Diahann Carroll: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Diahann's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Fire planets
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Diahann Carroll's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Diahann Carroll was born on July 17, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Diahann Carroll's birth date, July 17, 1935, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Diahann’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Diahann Carroll's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
- Diahann Carroll combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Diahann’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableSunsquareMars0.2° to 0.6° orb
Diahann’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.8° to 1.9° orb
Diahann’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.9° orb
Diahann’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.0° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Diahann’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 27°50′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°13′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Diahann’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Diahann’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Born the same day as Diahann
Donald Sutherland was born on July 17, 1935 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Diahann
Other actors
- Danny Aiello1933
- Frederic Forrest1936
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- Susan Kohner1936
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Also born on July 17
- Angela Merkel1954
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- Robert Coleman RichardsonAmerican physicist
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Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Francisco TrincãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Rúben NevesPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Nicolás de la CruzUruguayan association football player
- Hakan ÇalhanoğluTurkish association football player (born 1994)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- David MazouzAmerican actor
- Maja ChwalińskaPolish female tennis player
- Connie TalbotBritish singer
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Diahann’s cards
Computed from July 17, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Diahann’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q240233 (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 CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Diahann Carroll at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Diahann Carroll’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Diahann Carroll?
- Diahann Carroll was a Cancer: born July 17, 1935, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Diahann Carroll's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1935 birth.
- What was Diahann Carroll's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Diahann Carroll's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Diahann Carroll's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Diahann Carroll's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
