Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (born September 13, 1960, Johannesburg, South Africa; died 1994), was a South African photojournalist. Carter is best remembered for The vulture and the little girl. Carter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Kevin Carter’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Kevin
Kevin Carter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kevin in the U.S.?
#221
US rank in 2025
~1,189,844
Americans share it since 1912
1963
its peak year
In 1960, 28,400 American boys and 93 girls were registered Kevin — 15th among boys and 1,129th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kevin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kevin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1960, 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 Kevin apart
The vulture and the little girl. That is the work the name is attached to.
Kevin Carter was 15 when the work began in 1975.
Cause of death is recorded as carbon monoxide poisoning.
On Wikipedia the categories read Suicides in South Africa, South African photographers and Bang-Bang Club.
Bob Eggleton shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The vulture and the little girl
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (1994)
- Working from
- 1975
- Cause of death
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
What the chart says
Kevin, according to the stars
Core essence
Kevin 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 Kevin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Kevin wants to be loved
Kevin 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. Kevin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Kevin creates
How Kevin makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Kevin builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Kevin 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Kevin is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Kevin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Kevin's birth date. Working below.
Where Kevin sits
Six lines
Kevin’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Kevin Carter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg that night
Computed for 26.20°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Johannesburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Dabih of Capricornus, within 11.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 67 catalog stars were up in all.
Johannesburg sits at 26.2°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at last quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
The death is recorded at Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in 1994.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kevin Carter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kevin's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Kevin Carter's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Kevin Carter was born on September 13, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Kevin Carter's birth date, September 13, 1960, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Kevin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kevin Carter's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kevin Carter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Kevin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 5.7° orb
Kevin’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.2° orb
Kevin’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb
Kevin’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.0° to 1.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.1° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.5° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Kevin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°25′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
- Eros square Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.9°
Kevin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Kevin’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Born the same day as Kevin
Bob Eggleton was born on September 13, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 67 catalog stars stood above Johannesburg, at 26.2°S that night, with Dabih nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Kevin
Other photographers
- Deanne Fitzmaurice1957
- Carolyn Cole1961
- Michael Williamson1957
- Boy George1961
- Anthony Suau1956
- Gilbert King1962
Born in South Africa
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- Patrice MotsepeSouth African businessman
- Nicky OppenheimerSouth African businessman
- Arnold VoslooSouth African actor
- J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian writer and scholar
- Damon GalgutSouth African writer (1963-)
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Manuel UgarteUruguayan association football player
- Cristian RomeroArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- John StonesEnglish footballer (born 1994)
Other Virgo Rat charts
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Other Evergreen Healers
- Bob EggletonAmerican artist
- Tony BennettAmerican singer
- Marion WilliamsAmerican gospel singer
- Daichi KamadaJapanese association football player
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Kyle ChandlerAmerican actor (born 1965)
- Robert AramayoEnglish actor (b. 1992)
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Kevin’s cards
Computed from September 13, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kevin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262660 (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 Rebecca_Hearfield_Photographing_Kevin_Carter.jpg: Ilagardien derivative work: Jacek555, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kevin Carter at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kevin Carter.
Quick answers about Kevin Carter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kevin Carter?
- Kevin Carter was a Virgo: born September 13, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Kevin Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1960 birth.
- What was Kevin Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kevin Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kevin Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kevin Carter's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
