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Karl Urban

Karl Urban (born Karl-Heinz Urban; June 7, 1972, Wellington, New Zealand), aged 54, is a New Zealand actor. Urban is best known for Dredd, The Chronicles of Riddick and Star Trek. Urban's honours include Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Karl Urban’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Karl Urban’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Karl, according to the stars

Core essence

Karl is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Karl needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Karl gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

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 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 5 is the free spirit. Karl is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Karl sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Karl

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Karl

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Karl

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Karl

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Karl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Karl

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Karl Urban

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wellington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Karl’s birth-night reference starMenkentwarm orange · CentaurusMenkent, in Centaurus. A warm orange star, 83.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkent →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 68.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Karl Urban in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Karl Urban's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Karl Urban was born on June 7, 1972, 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 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Karl Urban's birth date, June 7, 1972, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Karl’s chart

Karl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Karl Urban, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.3° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.6° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Gemini · 16°20′☉16°Moon in Aries · 14°00′☽14°Mercury in Gemini · 18°58′☿18°Venus in Cancer · 2°24′ · retrograde♀℞2°Mars in Cancer · 16°15′♂16°Jupiter in Capricorn · 5°39′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Gemini · 10°49′♄10°Uranus in Libra · 14°17′ · retrograde♅℞14°Neptune in Sagittarius · 3°32′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Virgo · 29°19′ · retrograde♇℞29°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 7.5° orb

    Karl’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.5° orb

    Karl’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.6° to 2.3° orb

    Karl’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 3.2° orb

    Karl’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.9° to 3.3° orb

    Karl’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.1° to 3.4° orb

    Karl’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

    Karl’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 5.8° orb

    Karl’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

    Karl’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.9° orb

    Karl’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb

    Karl’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.2° to 7.4° orb

    Karl’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 16°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Karl may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 25°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Karl is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 7°53′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Karl is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 2°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Karl carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Karl is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.2°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.2°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.7°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.9°

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. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Karl is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Karl Urban, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Karl’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Karl Urban, 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 Q132430, 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 John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.

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Quick answers about Karl Urban’s chart

How old is Karl Urban?
Karl Urban is 54 years old, born June 7, 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand.
What zodiac sign is Karl Urban?
Karl Urban is a Gemini: born June 7, 1972, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
What is Karl Urban's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1972 birth.
What time was Karl Urban 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.
What is Karl Urban's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 7, 1972 birth date.
What is Karl Urban's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 7, 1972 birth date.
Where is Karl Urban's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Karl Urban's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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