Ovie Carter
Ovie Carter (born March 11, 1946, Indianola, United States), aged 80, is an American photographer. Carter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Ovie Carter’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ovie
Ovie Carter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ovie in the U.S.?
#8738
US rank in 2025
~854
Americans share it since 1884
2023
its peak year
In 1946, 6 American boys were registered Ovie — 3,432nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ovie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on O (6) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ovie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, 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 Ovie apart
The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1975, when Ovie Carter was 29.
On Wikipedia the categories read Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago alumni, Photographers from Mississippi and People from Indianola, Mississippi.
Rupert Murdoch (1931) and Didier Drogba (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1975)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
Ovie, according to the stars
Core essence
Ovie feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Ovie is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Ovie creates
How Ovie 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. Ovie 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: Ovie is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ovie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ovie 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 Ovie's birth date. Working below.
Where Ovie sits
Six lines
Ovie’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Ovie Carter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indianola 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 Indianola that night
Computed for 33.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Indianola at 9 p.m. that evening: Pollux of Gemini, within 8.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Indianola sits at 33.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Indianola at all: they sit past the −56.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon up and 68% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Ovie's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Ovie Carter's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Ovie Carter was born on March 11, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Ovie Carter's birth date, March 11, 1946, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ovie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ovie Carter's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Ovie Carter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Ovie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.3° to 1.1° orb
Ovie’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.0° to 1.8° orb
Ovie’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
Ovie’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.5° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 2.5° to 16.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Ovie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 20°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°58′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°09′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°27′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.4°
Ovie’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars, Saturn
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ovie’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
More people like Ovie
Other photographers
- Eddie Adams1933
- Ronald A. Edmonds1946
- Horst Faas1933
- Michel Laurent1946
- Malcolm Browne1931
- Alan Diaz1947
Born in United States
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- Goldie HawnAmerican actress
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- Bob GuntonAmerican film, television and stage actor
- Janet KaganAmerican science fiction author
More charts like Ovie’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Kerr SmithAmerican actor
- James Van Der BeekAmerican actor
- Robin ThickeAmerican singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1977)
Born in Dog years
- Zoë AkinsPlaywright, poet, author
- Charles IvesAmerican modernist composer
- Norman MailerAmerican writer
Also born on March 11
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Didier Drogba1978
- Johnny Knoxville1971
- Mark Rober1980
- Black Coffee1976
- Terrence Howard1969
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Bob SagetAmerican stand-up comedian
- John StamosAmerican actor
- Teddy SwimsAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Pisces Dog charts
- Samet AkaydınTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Jorrel HatoDutch footballer (born 2006)
- DeForest BucknerAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Dalvin TomlinsonAmerican football player (born 1994)
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr.American historian
- George DangerfieldAwardee of the Pulitzer Prize, 1953
- Héctor Rondón LoveraVenezuelan photographer
- Anne ApplebaumAmerican journalist and historian (born 1964)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Joe FrancisAmerican criminal and founder of Girls Gone Wild (born 1973)
- Shenae GrimesCanadian–American actress
- Josh HollowayAmerican actor
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Ovie’s cards
Computed from March 11, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ovie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3887710 (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 Hans Peters for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ovie 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 Ovie Carter.
Quick answers about Ovie Carter’s chart
- How old is Ovie Carter?
- Ovie Carter is 80 years old, born March 11, 1946 in Indianola, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ovie Carter?
- Ovie Carter is a Pisces: born March 11, 1946, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Ovie Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1946 birth.
- What is Ovie Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ovie Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ovie Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ovie Carter's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
