Karl Malden
Karl Malden (born March 22, 1912, Chicago, United States; died 2009), was an American actor. Malden's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Awards and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Karl Malden’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Karl
Karl Malden’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1912, Karl came 182nd, carried by 323 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3).
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
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1912, 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
Karl Malden took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1952, at 40.
Training came by way of DePaul University and Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
The working life starts in 1937, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Karl Malden: People from Gary, Indiana, Recipients of the Order of St. Sava and Male actors from Indiana.
Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- DePaul University and Stella Adler Studio of Acting
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1952) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1985)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Buried at
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and Serbian
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Karl is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Karl is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Karl needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Karl wants to be loved
Karl wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Karl, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Karl creates
How Karl makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Karl creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Karl is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Karl 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Karl scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Karl Malden
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 6.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 19% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Brentwood, Los Angeles in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Karl Malden: 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
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Karl Malden's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Karl Malden was born on March 22, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Karl Malden's birth date, March 22, 1912, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Karl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karl Malden's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Karl Malden combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus 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
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 7.9° orb
Karl’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileUranus0.3° to 1.3° orb
Karl’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.2° to 2.7° orb
Karl’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.2° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrinePlutoorb from 6.8° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 8°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 21°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°51′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Eros square Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.5°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°
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Karl’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94992 (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 Karl's friend Barry Iddon, Variety Club of Great Britain, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karl Malden 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 Karl Malden.
Quick answers about Karl Malden’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karl Malden?
- Karl Malden was an Aries: born March 22, 1912, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Karl Malden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1912 birth.
- How tall was Karl Malden?
- Karl Malden was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Karl Malden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karl Malden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karl Malden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karl Malden's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
