Karen Elliott House
Karen Elliott House (born December 7, 1947, Matador, United States), aged 78, is an American journalist and former executive. House's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Karen Elliott House’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Karen
Karen Elliott House’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 1947, Karen came 13th among girls and 1,202nd among boys, carried by 21,648 American girls and 37 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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Elliott House took the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1984, at 37.
Training came by way of Moody College of Communication and University of Texas at Austin.
On the family side, Karen Elliott House was married Peter R. Kann.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Karen Elliott House: People from Matador, Texas, The Wall Street Journal people and Moody College of Communication alumni.
Nicholas Hoult (1989) and Chris Wood (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Moody College of Communication and University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1984)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Karen, according to the stars
Core essence
Karen is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Karen is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Karen cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Karen needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Karen wants to be loved
Karen wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Karen you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Karen creates
How Karen makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Karen creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Karen 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Karen Elliott House
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Matador 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 Matador that night
Computed for 34.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Matador at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 19% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
How unusual Karen's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Water planets · 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.
Score your own chart →Karen Elliott House at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Karen Elliott House's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 7, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Karen Elliott House was born on December 7, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Karen Elliott House's birth date, December 7, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Karen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karen Elliott House's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Karen Elliott House combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Karen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Libra 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
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Karen’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 2.4° orb
Karen’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb
Karen’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Karen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 18°00′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 25°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius or Capricorn during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 0°08′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.4°
Karen’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Karen’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
More people like Karen
Other journalists
- Eileen McNamara1952
- Stephen Kurkjian1943
- Bill Keller1949
- Lucy Morgan1940
- David Horsey1951
- Serge Schmemann1945
Born in United States
- Bernadette PetersAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
- Margo JeffersonAmerican writer and academic (born 1947)
- Don BartlettiAmerican photojournalist
- Jeff MacNellyAmerican editorial cartoonist
- Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
- Richard DreyfussAmerican actor (born 1947)
More charts like Karen’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- SnookiAmerican reality television personality
- Marques BrownleeAmerican technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality
- Chin HanSingaporean actor
Born in Pig years
- Carl PhillipsAmerican writer and poet (born 1959)
- Hank WilliamsAmerican singer-songwriter
- James SchuylerAmerican poet
Also born on December 7
- Nicholas Hoult1989
- Chris Wood1991
- Caleb Landry Jones1989
- Dan Bilzerian1980
- Aaron Carter1987
- Terrell Owens1973
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Matt GayAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Kwity PayeAmerican football player
- Owen PappoeAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
- Jeff PrucherAmerican author
- Lynn FontanneBritish actress
- Fredrik AursnesNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
- Timothy CastagneBelgian association football player
Other Gilded Explorers
- Kim NovakAmerican actress
- Bibi AnderssonSwedish actress
- Paul GleasonAmerican actor
- Ellen WidmannSwiss actress
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Emma CorrinBritish actor (born 1995)
- Matt DillonAmerican actor
- Emilie de RavinAustralian actress (born 1981)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Karen’s cards
Computed from December 7, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1407715 (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 Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karen Elliott House at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karen Elliott House.
Quick answers about Karen Elliott House’s chart
- How old is Karen Elliott House?
- Karen Elliott House is 78 years old, born December 7, 1947 in Matador, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Karen Elliott House?
- Karen Elliott House is a Sagittarius: born December 7, 1947, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Karen Elliott House's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 7, 1947 birth.
- What is Karen Elliott House's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Karen Elliott House's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Karen Elliott House's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Karen Elliott House's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
