T. K. Carter
T. K. Carter (born December 18, 1956, New York City, United States; died 2026), was an American actor and comedian.
T. K. Carter’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with T. K. Carter
T. K. Carter’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What T. K. Carter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on T (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
T. K. Carter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 T. K. Carter apart
The working life starts in 1974, at 18.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for T. K. Carter: Comedians from Los Angeles County, California, Male actors from Los Angeles County, California and African-American male comedians.
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Working from
- 1974
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
What the chart says
T. K. Carter, according to the stars
Core essence
T. K. Carter is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of T. K. Carter is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, T. K. Carter is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What T. K. Carter needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How T. K. Carter wants to be loved
T. K. Carter wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with T. K. Carter even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How T. K. Carter creates
How T. K. Carter 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. T. K. Carter 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: T. K. Carter is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. T. K. Carter 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means T. K. Carter gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from T. K. Carter's birth date. Working below.
Where T. K. Carter sits
Six lines
T. K. Carter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 T. K. Carter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Algol, in Perseus, 88.0° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Duarte, Los Angeles County in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for T. K. Carter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual T.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 2 planets 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
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
T. K. Carter's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
T. K. Carter was born on December 18, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
T. K. Carter's birth date, December 18, 1956, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in T. K. Carter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in T. K. Carter's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- T. K. Carter combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
T. K. Carter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° 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
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb
T. K. Carter’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto1.1° to 2.4° orb
T. K. Carter’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.3° to 2.5° orb
T. K. Carter’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.3° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
T. K. Carter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 8°41′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 8°20′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 25°29′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°10′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
T. K. Carter’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in T. K. Carter’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
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More charts like T. K. Carter’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Michael OliseFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Henry PollockEnglish rugby union player
- Jasprit BumrahIndian cricketer (born 1993)
Born in Monkey years
- Ben SavageAmerican actor
- Rod StewartEnglish singer and songwriter (born 1945)
- Nick SwisherAmerican baseball player
Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- DMX1970
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jenny LewisAmerican musician and actress
- Phil McGrawAmerican television personality (born 1950)
- Bill MurrayAmerican actor and comedian
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Brendan FraserCanadian-American actor
- Emmanuelle CharpentierFrench microbiologist and biochemist
- Lucy LiuAmerican actress
- Kim Seok-jinSouth Korean singer
Other Steadfast Healers
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- Eric Schmidtsoftware engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
- Liang WengenBillionaire and member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Claire DanesAmerican actor
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
T. K. Carter’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
T. K. Carter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2061785 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about T. K. Carter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was T. K. Carter?
- T. K. Carter was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1956, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was T. K. Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1956 birth.
- What was T. K. Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was T. K. Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was T. K. Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was T. K. Carter's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
