Karen Carpenter
Karen Carpenter (born March 2, 1950, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 11:45; died 1983), was an American singer and drummer. Best-known releases include Karen Carpenter.
Karen Carpenter’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Karen
Karen Carpenter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
Karen ranked 12th among girls and 1,212th among boys in 1950, the year of this birth, with 24,132 American girls and 36 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
11 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
The record
What sets Karen apart
Downey High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1965, at 15.
Cause of death is recorded as anorexia nervosa; the grave is at Valley Oaks Memorial Park.
The family line: born to Agnes Reuwer Tatum and Harold Bertram Carpenter.
Daniel Craig (1968) and Anthony Albanese (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Downey High School
- Instruments
- drum kit and voice
- Working from
- 1965
- Cause of death
- anorexia nervosa
- Buried at
- Valley Oaks Memorial Park
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Karen, according to the stars
Core essence
Karen feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Karen 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, Karen needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Karen needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Karen wants to be loved
Karen wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Karen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Karen creates
How Karen makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Karen creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Karen is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Karen is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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. Karen fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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The sky over Yale – New Haven Hospital that night
Computed for 41.30°N, at the documented birth time.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Yale – New Haven Hospital at the birth hour, 75.3° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.3°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 Yale – New Haven Hospital at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -41° down.
What Karen's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Treasurer 天府 in 申
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3
Sacral authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →Karen Carpenter in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Karen Carpenter's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What Pisces means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Karen Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Karen Carpenter's birth date, March 2, 1950, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Karen’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Karen Carpenter's timed chart: Mars in the 4th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Karen Carpenter's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Karen Carpenter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Karen’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.4° orb
Karen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 1.0° orb
Karen’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.6° orb
Karen’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.0° orb
MoonoppositionJupiterapplying · 2.3° orb
MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 3.3° orb
VenustrineMarsapplying · 3.9° orb
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 4.3° orb
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 4.9° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°00′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°25′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 20°09′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°08′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°36′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Eros trine Moon 1.7°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Moon 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.4°
- Chiron trine Moon 2.6°
- Ceres square Sun 2.9°
Karen’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Karen’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
Karen’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 2 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 9 | Moon, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 8 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 8 | Mars, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 1 | Mercury, Venus, Jupiter | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | Sun | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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- Billy Idol1955
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More charts like Karen’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Moira KellyAmerican actress (b. 1968)
- Henry TraversBritish-American actor
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Born in Tiger years
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- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate
Also born on March 2
- Daniel Craig1968
- Anthony Albanese1963
- Jon Bon Jovi1962
- Chris Martin1977
- Bryce Dallas Howard1981
- Becky G1997
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Leonardo DiCaprioAmerican actor and producer
- Golda MeirPrime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
- Robert OppenheimerAmerican theoretical physicist
Other Pisces Tiger charts
- Mecole HardmanAmerican football player (born 1998)
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- Ruby RoseAustralian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
Other Radiant Seekers
- Phil KnightAmerican billionaire and co-founder of Nike
- Oksana ChusovitinaSoviet-Uzbek-German artistic gymnast
- Miranda JulyAmerican performance artist, musician and writer
- Nikki GlaserAmerican comedian
Other Cancer risings with documented times
- Sally RideAmerican astronaut and physicist
- Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist
- Liv TylerAmerican actress
- Jack BlackAmerican actor, comedian, singer, musician and producer
Famous people with Life Path 11
- PeléBrazilian footballer
- Charles IIIKing of the United Kingdom since 2022
- Diego MaradonaArgentine football player and manager
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Karen’s cards
Computed from March 2, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1250861 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 White House photo by Knudsen, Robert L., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karen Carpenter at Wikipedia, 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 Karen Carpenter.
Quick answers about Karen Carpenter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karen Carpenter?
- Karen Carpenter was a Pisces: born March 2, 1950, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
- What was Karen Carpenter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 2, 1950 birth.
- What time was Karen Carpenter born?
- 11:45 local time in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Karen Carpenter's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 11:45 birth time in New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Karen Carpenter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karen Carpenter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karen Carpenter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karen Carpenter's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
