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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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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 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Karen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Karen Carpenter's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time. 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.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
Karen’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonoppositionJupiterapplying · 2.3° orb
Karen’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 3.3° orb
Karen’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
VenustrineMarsapplying · 3.9° orb
Karen’s affections flow straight into their drive.
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
Karen’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 4.3° orb
Karen’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb
Karen’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 4.9° orb
Karen’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.3° orb
Karen’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°00′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Karen building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°25′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Karen is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAries 20°09′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Karen is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°08′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Karen is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°36′ · House 11
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. Karen is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Karen’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Karen 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 Karen’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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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Karen’s cards
Every card is computed from March 2, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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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 data comes from
Karen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1250861, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger.
- 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 from the March 2, 1950 birth date.
- What was Karen Carpenter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 2, 1950 birth time.
- 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.
