George Carlin
George Carlin (born May 12, 1937, New York City, United States, 11:45; died 2008), was an American stand-up comedian. Carlin is best remembered for seven dirty words. Carlin's honours include Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Grammy Hall of Fame and Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
George Carlin’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with George
George Carlin’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1937, 18,439 American boys and 144 girls were registered George — 10th among boys and 567th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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 1937, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets George apart
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George 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 George 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.
The vibe
Underneath, George processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What George needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George creates
How George makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. George creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: George 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. George is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of George leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. George has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to George Carlin
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Read from the sky above New York City at 11:45, George Carlin’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at New York City at the birth hour: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -63° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 2008.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What George's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 亥.
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · Grand trine · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
George Carlin's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
George Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
George Carlin's birth date, May 12, 1937, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in George Carlin's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house and Uranus in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in George Carlin's timed chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- George Carlin combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
George’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupiteroppositionPlutoapplying · 0.6° orb
George’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
MarstrineSaturnseparating · 1.0° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
MoonsextileVenusseparating · 1.6° orb
George’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 2.0° orb
MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
MarssextileJupiterapplying · 3.4° orb
MarstrinePlutoapplying · 4.0° orb
JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 4.5° orb
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 5.1° orb
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 5.2° orb
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 5.8° orb
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironGemini 21°21′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 25°25′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 22°27′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°57′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°34′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Moon 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.0°
- Eros square Moon 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.9°
George’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in George’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Moon biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Moon 0.3°
- Moon semi-sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
George’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 10 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 6 | Mars | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 9 | Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 2 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 5 | Venus, Saturn | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 9 | Sun, Mercury, Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 10 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 11 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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George’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q150651 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Little David Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Carlin at Wikipedia, georgecarlin.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Carlin.
Quick answers about George Carlin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Carlin?
- George Carlin was a Taurus: born May 12, 1937, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What was George Carlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1937 birth.
- What time was George Carlin born?
- 11:45 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was George Carlin's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 11:45 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall was George Carlin?
- George Carlin was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was George Carlin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Carlin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 21°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Carlin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Carlin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
