Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro (born November 10, 1913, Baltimore, United States; died 2000), was an American poet and essayist. Shapiro's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Karl Shapiro’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Karl
Karl Shapiro’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 1913, 387 American boys were registered Karl — 177th 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
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 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1944, when Karl Shapiro was 31.
Study took Karl Shapiro to University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University.
Karl Shapiro was married Evalyn Katz.
On Wikipedia the categories read World War II poets, Poets from Baltimore and University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty.
Brittany Murphy (1977) and João Félix (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University
- Awards
- Bollingen Prize (1969), Guggenheim Fellowship (1944) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1945)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl does not do surface. The core of Karl is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Karl is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Karl runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Karl needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Karl creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Karl is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Karl does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Shapiro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Baltimore sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Baltimore, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Karl Shapiro: 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
Yod onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Karl Shapiro's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Karl Shapiro was born on November 10, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Karl Shapiro's birth date, November 10, 1913, 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 Shapiro's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Karl Shapiro combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aries 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
stableVenussquareMars2.0° to 3.0° orb
Karl’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.2° to 3.5° orb
Karl’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
Karl’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileUranus4.4° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.8° to 5.6° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.5° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 10°31′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 20°33′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 21°30′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 22°52′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.1°
- Eros trine Mars 1.4°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.6°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.3°
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Karl’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2906282 (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.
The same Karl Shapiro at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karl Shapiro.
Quick answers about Karl Shapiro’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karl Shapiro?
- Karl Shapiro was a Scorpio: born November 10, 1913, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Karl Shapiro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1913 birth.
- What was Karl Shapiro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karl Shapiro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karl Shapiro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karl Shapiro's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
