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Steve Carell

Steve Carell (born Steven John Carrell; August 16, 1962, Concord, United States, 08:59), aged 64, is an American actor and comedian. Notable films include The Office, Bruce Almighty and Little Miss Sunshine. Carell's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, MTV Movie & TV Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Steve Carell’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Steve Carell’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Steve in the U.S.?

#1617

US rank in 2025

~242,131

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

The SSA recorded 9,154 American boys and 24 girls named Steve in 1962: 46th among boys and 2,529th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Steven John Carrell, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Steve apart

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Musical or Comedy came in 2006, when Steve Carell was 44.

The schooling ran through Middlesex School and Denison University.

Steve Carell was 27 when the work began in 1989.

The family line: married Nancy Carell.

Madonna (1958) and James Cameron (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Middlesex School and Denison University
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Musical or Comedy (2006)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1989
Wikipedia editions
71

What the chart says

Steve, according to the stars

Core essence

Steve is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Steve is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Steve is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Steve needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve 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. Steve gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Steve creates

How Steve makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Steve creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Steve is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Steve is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Steve scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Steve's birth date. Working below.

Where Steve sits

Six lines

Steve’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Steve

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Steve

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Steve

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Steve Carell

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Read from the sky above Concord at 08:59, Steve Carell’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Concord that night

Computed for 42.46°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Concord was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 87.3° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

Concord sits at 42.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Concord on any night.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat -33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Steven John Carrell
Known as
Steve Carell
Born in
Concord, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Steve Carell's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Steve's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

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Human Design

Projector, profile 5/1

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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Steve Carell at a glance

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Steve Carell's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.

What Leo means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Steve Carell was born on August 16, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Steve Carell's birth date, August 16, 1962, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.4° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun in Leo · 23°10′ · house 12☉23°Moon in Pisces · 2°55′ · house 7☽2°Mercury in Virgo · 10°02′ · house 1☿10°Venus in Libra · 8°24′ · house 2♀8°Mars in Gemini · 26°09′ · house 10♂26°Jupiter in Pisces · 9°39′ · house 7 · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Aquarius · 6°55′ · house 6 · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Virgo · 0°24′ · house 1♅0°Neptune in Scorpio · 10°52′ · house 3♆10°Pluto in Virgo · 9°16′ · house 1♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 28°19′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 28°19′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 28°01′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 28°01′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 0.4° orb

    Steve’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • JupiteroppositionPlutoapplying · 0.4° orb

    Steve’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 0.8° orb

    Steve’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.8° orb

  • JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 1.2° orb

  • VenustrineSaturnseparating · 1.5° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 2.5° orb

  • SunsextileMarsapplying · 3.0° orb

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb

  • MarssextileUranusapplying · 4.3° orb

  • MoonoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.3° orb

  • MoonconjunctionJupiterapplying · 6.7° orb

  • MoontrineMarsseparating · 6.8° orb

  • MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 7.1° orb

  • SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 9°14′ · House 7

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 0°22′ · House 12

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 22°06′ · House 11

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 1°54′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°29′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Moon 1.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 2.0°

Steve’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury14 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Steve’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 semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Moon biquintile Venus 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.4°

Steve’s houses

Steve’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 1Mercury, Uranus, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Libra, house 2Venusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 1Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 7emptyhome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 6emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 1Saturnwork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 3Moon, Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Gemini, house 10emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Libra, house 2emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 1Marscareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Pisces, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Leo, house 12Sunthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Steve’s cards

Computed from August 16, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216221 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve Carell at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Carell.

Quick answers about Steve Carell’s chart

How old is Steve Carell?
Steve Carell is 64 years old, born August 16, 1962 in Concord, United States.
What zodiac sign is Steve Carell?
Steve Carell is a Leo: born August 16, 1962, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
What is Steve Carell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1962 birth.
What time was Steve Carell born?
08:59 local time in Concord, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Steve Carell's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 08:59 birth time in Concord, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Steve Carell's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Steve Carell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 9°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Steve Carell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Steve Carell's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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