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Karen Allen

Karen Allen (born October 5, 1951, Carrollton, United States), aged 75, is an American actress. Allen's honours include Theatre World Award.

Karen Allen’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Karen Allen’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#1281

US rank in 2025

~990,774

Americans share it since 1881

1957

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1951, Karen came 8th among girls and 1,268th among boys, carried by 27,998 American girls and 34 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Karen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Karen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Karen apart

Karen Allen took the Theatre World Award in 1983, at 32.

The classrooms behind this chart: DuVal High School and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

The working life starts in 1978, at 27.

On the family side, Karen Allen was married Kale Browne.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Karen Allen: People from Carrollton, Illinois, Bard College at Simon's Rock faculty and Actresses from Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

The same date carries Beate Heister. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
DuVal High School, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and George Washington University
Awards
Theatre World Award (1983)
Working from
1978
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
46

What the chart says

Karen, according to the stars

Core essence

Karen makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Karen 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, Karen is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Karen needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Karen wants to be loved

Karen 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 Karen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Karen creates

How Karen makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Karen creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Karen is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Karen is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Karen channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Karen's birth date. Working below.

Where Karen sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Karen

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Karen

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

PrivateExpressive
Karen

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Karen

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

PracticalVisionary
Karen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Karen

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Karen Allen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Carrollton 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 Carrollton that night

Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Carrollton was Deneb, in Cygnus, 75.1° up.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Carrollton at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 29% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Karen's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Uranus · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Karen Allen in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Karen Allen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 5, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Karen Allen was born on October 5, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Karen Allen's birth date, October 5, 1951, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Karen’s chart

Karen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.9° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.1° orbSun in Libra · 11°41′☉11°Moon in Sagittarius · 11°56′☽11°Mercury in Libra · 5°40′☿5°Venus in Virgo · 4°13′♀4°Mars in Virgo · 0°27′♂0°Jupiter in Aries · 8°48′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Libra · 6°15′♄6°Uranus in Cancer · 13°54′♅13°Neptune in Libra · 18°59′♆18°Pluto in Leo · 21°00′♇20°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Karen’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Karen’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter2.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.4° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars3.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.8° to 7.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 27°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 3°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 13°05′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°44′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 10°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Venus 0.6°
  • Eros square Uranus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.2°
  • Eros opposition Sun 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.8°

Karen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Karen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusAn 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.

  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.6°

Born the same day as Karen

Beate Heister was born on October 5, 1951 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. Carrollton sits at 39.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Karen’s cards

Computed from October 5, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Karen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229137 (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 Michele Eve Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Karen Allen at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karen Allen.

Quick answers about Karen Allen’s chart

How old is Karen Allen?
Karen Allen is 75 years old, born October 5, 1951 in Carrollton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Karen Allen?
Karen Allen is a Libra: born October 5, 1951, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Karen Allen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 5, 1951 birth.
What is Karen Allen's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Karen Allen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Karen Allen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Karen Allen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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