Irene Cara
Irene Cara (born March 18, 1959, The Bronx, United States; died 2022), was an American singer and actress. Cara's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
Irene Cara’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Irene
Irene Cara’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Irene in the U.S.?
#651
US rank in 2025
~356,812
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,098 American girls and 6 boys named Irene in 1959: 179th among girls and 3,772nd among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Irene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on I (9) 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
Irene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Irene apart
The Academy Award for Best Original Song came in 1984, when Irene Cara was 25.
Irene Cara was taught at Professional Children's School and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.
Irene Cara was 9 when the work began in 1968.
Cause of death is recorded as cardiovascular disease.
The family line: married Conrad Palmisano.
Wikipedia files Irene Cara under Actresses from Pinellas County, Florida, American musicians of Cuban descent and African-American women singer-songwriters.
Lily Collins (1989) and Adam Levine (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Professional Children's School and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Instruments
- piano and voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Song (1984), Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1984) and Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album (1984)
- Nominated for
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 1968
- Cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
What the chart says
Irene, according to the stars
Core essence
Irene feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Irene is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Irene is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Irene needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Irene wants to be loved
Irene 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 Irene creates
How Irene 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. Irene 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: Irene 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Irene is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Irene scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Irene's birth date. Working below.
Where Irene sits
Six lines
Irene’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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Irene Cara
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.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 64% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
- Lived in
- Miami
Wikidata records Miami as Irene Cara's home, against The Bronx as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Largo, Pinellas County in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Irene Cara: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Irene's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Irene Cara's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 18, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Irene Cara was born on March 18, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Irene Cara's birth date, March 18, 1959, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Irene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Irene Cara's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Irene Cara combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Irene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Cancer 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
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Irene’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Irene’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.4° orb
Irene’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.4° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurysextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.1° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Irene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 28°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 5°23′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 14°33′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.3°
- Eros square Pluto 3.0°
Irene’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Irene’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 Venus 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
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Born in United States
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- Linda BlairAmerican actress
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More charts like Irene’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Lily CollinsBritish-American actress
- Chris MartinEnglish singer-songwriter
- Mitch McConnellAmerican politician and lawyer
Born in Pig years
- Leroy SanéGerman association football player
- Fredrik AursnesNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
- Mike MaignanFrench footballer (born 1995)
Also born on March 18
- Adam Levine1979
- Queen Latifah1970
- Dane Cook1972
- Vanessa Williams1963
- Miltiadis Tentoglou1998
- Brad Dourif1950
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Kel'el WareAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Kris MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Georges NiangAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Other Pisces Pig charts
- Jon HammAmerican actor
- Ben OkriNigerian-born British poet and novelist
- Johnny KnoxvilleAmerican stunt performer and actor
- Atif AslamPakistani playback singer and songwriter
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Chris O'DowdIrish actor and comedian (born 1979)
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
- Russell SimmonsAmerican entrepreneur and record executive
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- John Hugheseditor, born 1930
- Michael KammenAmerican historian
- Toluse OlorunnipaAmerican White House reporter
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Irene’s cards
Computed from March 18, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Irene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234169 (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 Aaron Rapoport. Published and Distributed by Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Irene Cara at Wikipedia, irenecara.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Irene Cara.
Quick answers about Irene Cara’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Irene Cara?
- Irene Cara was a Pisces: born March 18, 1959, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Irene Cara's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 18, 1959 birth.
- What was Irene Cara's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Irene Cara's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Irene Cara's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Irene Cara's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
