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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Irene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Irene Cara, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Irene’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb
Irene’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Irene’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto4.4° to 5.7° orb
Irene’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
Irene’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.1° orb
Irene’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb
Irene’s mind grinds against their discipline.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Irene making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 28°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Irene is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 5°23′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Irene is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 14°33′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Irene needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Irene is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Irene’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Irene is read as tuned to what is not said.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Irene’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Irene Cara, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Irene’s cards
Every card is computed from March 18, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Irene Cara, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Irene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234169, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- 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 time was Irene Cara born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Irene Cara's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 18, 1959 birth date.
- What was Irene Cara's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 18, 1959 birth date.
- 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.
