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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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.

T. K. Carter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where T. K. Carter sits

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Intimate circleWide network
T. K. Carter

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
T. K. Carter

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

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

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

PracticalVisionary
T. K. Carter

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Says 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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Monkey

Solved 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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 6

Everyone'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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in T. K. Carter’s chart

T. K. Carter’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for T. K. Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.4° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Sagittarius · 26°47′26°Moon in Cancer · 9°21′Mercury in Capricorn · 15°17′15°Venus in Scorpio · 28°39′28°Mars in Aries · 6°20′Jupiter in Libra · 0°32′Saturn in Sagittarius · 7°49′Uranus in Leo · 6°25′ · retrogradeNeptune in Scorpio · 2°01′Pluto in Virgo · 0°23′ · retrograde

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • 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

    T. K. Carter’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.3° to 1.5° orb

    T. K. Carter’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

    T. K. Carter’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb

    T. K. Carter’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb

    T. K. Carter’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb

    T. K. Carter’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.0° orb

    T. K. Carter’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironAquarius 8°41′ (moves 0.06° 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 T. K. Carter making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresAries 8°20′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: T. K. Carter looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ErosAquarius 25°29′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. T. K. Carter is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • HygieaAquarius 11°10′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. T. K. Carter is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has T. K. Carter at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

T. K. Carter’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. 1. Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: T. K. Carter is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 T. K. Carter’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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for T. K. Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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T. K. Carter’s cards

Every card is computed from December 18, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yang Fire

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for T. K. 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

T. K. Carter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2061785, 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 Uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same T. K. Carter at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
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 time was T. K. 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 T. K. Carter's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 18, 1956 birth date.
What was T. K. Carter's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 18, 1956 birth date.
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.

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