Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1933, Hamburg, Germany; died 2019), was a German fashion designer. Lagerfeld's honours include Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Berliner Bär.
Karl Lagerfeld’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Karl
Karl Lagerfeld’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Karl in the U.S.?
#1593
US rank in 2025
~101,751
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
In 1933, 681 American boys and 5 girls were registered Karl — 181st among boys and 4,541st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Karl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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 1933, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Karl apart
Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- French and German
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Karl is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Karl wants to be loved
Karl wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Karl gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Karl creates
How Karl 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. Karl 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: Karl is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Karl is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Karl runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Karl's birth date. Working below.
Where Karl sits
Six lines
Karl’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Karl Lagerfeld
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamburg 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 Hamburg that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Hamburg at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.1° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 53.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hamburg at all: they sit past the −36.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 60% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamburg, Germany
The death is recorded at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Karl Lagerfeld: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Karl's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto · 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Karl Lagerfeld's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Karl Lagerfeld was born on September 10, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Karl Lagerfeld's birth date, September 10, 1933, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Karl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karl Lagerfeld's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Karl Lagerfeld combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Karl’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Karl’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.3° to 1.0° orb
Karl’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussquarePluto2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 6.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.6° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.7° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.1° to 15.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 4°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 20°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 29°24′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 0°11′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.6°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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 onto Pluto · Venus, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Ryan Phillippe1974
- Sam Kerr1993
- Elsa Schiaparelli1890
- Coco Rocha1988
- Changpeng Zhao1977
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Wallace StegnerAmerican historian, writer, and environmentalist
- Katharine GrahamAmerican publisher, editor and author
- Anthony HechtAmerican poet
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Karl’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76716 (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 Christopher William Adach, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karl Lagerfeld at Wikipedia, karllagerfeld.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karl Lagerfeld.
Quick answers about Karl Lagerfeld’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karl Lagerfeld?
- Karl Lagerfeld was a Virgo: born September 10, 1933, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Karl Lagerfeld's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1933 birth.
- What was Karl Lagerfeld's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karl Lagerfeld's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karl Lagerfeld's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karl Lagerfeld's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
