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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Karl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Karl sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Karl Malden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Karl’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.1° to 4.6° orb
Karl’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Karl’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.5° orb
Karl’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquarePluto4.3° to 5.3° orb
Karl’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.2° to 7.7° orb
Karl’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 8°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Karl absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 21°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Karl is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°51′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Karl is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Karl is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Karl is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Karl’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Karl is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Karl’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Karl Malden, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Karl’s cards
Every card is computed from March 22, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Karl Malden, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94992, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- 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.
- What time was Karl Malden born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- 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 from the March 22, 1912 birth date.
- What was Karl Malden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 22, 1912 birth date.
- 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.
