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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rat, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~1,189,844
Americans share it since 1880
1963
its peak year
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Kevin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Kevin Carter in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Kevin Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
Kevin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.0° to 1.5° orb
Kevin’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
Kevin’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 2.9° orb
Kevin’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
Kevin’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
Kevin’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareMars5.1° to 5.5° orb
Kevin’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° orb
Kevin’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars5.5° to 6.6° orb
Kevin’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Kevin making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°25′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Kevin is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCancer or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Kevin is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Kevin is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Kevin guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Kevin’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Kevin 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 Kevin’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.
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 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kevin Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Kevin
Bob Eggleton was born on September 13, 1960 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Kevin’s cards
Every card is computed from September 13, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Kevin Carter, 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
Kevin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262660, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat.
- 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 time was Kevin Carter 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 was Kevin Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 13, 1960 birth date.
- What was Kevin Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 13, 1960 birth date.
- 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.
