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Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson (born May 16, 1969, San Francisco, United States, 10:07), aged 57, is an American conservative political commentator. Carlson is best known for Crossfire, The Tucker Carlson Show and The Long Slide. Carlson's honours include Time 100 and Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

Tucker Carlson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Tucker Carlson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#181

US rank in 2025

~55,554

Americans share it since 1884

2014

its peak year

The SSA recorded 24 American boys named Tucker in 1969: 1,721st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tucker’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on T (2) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Tucker’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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 Tucker apart

The record Tucker Carlson is measured by: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Ship of Fools and Crossfire.

Tucker Carlson was taught at St. George's School and La Jolla Country Day School.

Tucker Carlson was born to Lisa McNear and Dick Carlson.

David Boreanaz shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Tucker Carlson Tonight, Ship of Fools and Crossfire
Educated at
St. George's School, La Jolla Country Day School and The Buckley School
Awards
Time 100 (2021) and Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship (2018)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
59

What the chart says

Tucker, according to the stars

Core essence

Tucker is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Tucker is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Tucker is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Tucker needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Tucker wants to be loved

Tucker wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Tucker creates

How Tucker makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Tucker creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Tucker is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Tucker is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Tucker leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Tucker has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Tucker's birth date. Working below.

Where Tucker sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Tucker

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tucker

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Tucker

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tucker

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tucker

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tucker

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above San Francisco at 10:07, Tucker Carlson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.77°N, at the documented birth time.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco at the birth hour, 82.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat -47° below the horizon.

What Tucker's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機 in 子

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

73 / 100 · Rare

3-planet stellium in Taurus · Born on the New Moon · Five planets retrograde

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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Tucker Carlson's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Tucker Carlson was born on May 16, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Tucker Carlson's birth date, May 16, 1969, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Tucker’s chart

Tucker’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.4° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.7° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.3° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 2.5° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun in Taurus · 25°38′ · house 11☉25°Moon in Taurus · 29°43′ · house 11☽29°Mercury in Gemini · 11°58′ · house 12☿11°Venus in Aries · 15°25′ · house 10♀15°Mars in Sagittarius · 14°27′ · house 6 · retrograde♂℞14°Jupiter in Virgo · 26°10′ · house 3 · retrograde♃℞26°Saturn in Taurus · 2°05′ · house 11♄2°Uranus in Libra · 0°04′ · house 4 · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Scorpio · 27°23′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Virgo · 22°29′ · house 3 · retrograde♇℞22°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 24°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 24°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 9°19′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 9°19′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoontrineUranusapplying · 0.4° orb

    Tucker’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • SuntrineJupiterapplying · 0.5° orb

    Tucker’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • VenustrineMarsseparating · 1.0° orb

    Tucker’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • JupitersextileNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb

  • SunoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb

  • MoonoppositionNeptuneseparating · 2.3° orb

  • MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 2.5° orb

  • UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 2.7° orb

  • SuntrinePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 3.5° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.7° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.9° orb

  • SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 4.1° orb

  • SuntrineUranusapplying · 4.4° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 5°41′ · House 10

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 10°37′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 0°11′ · House 11

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°30′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°06′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 1.9°

Tucker’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Tucker’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Moon, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Moon semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.0°

Tucker’s houses

Tucker’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Taurus, house 11emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Taurus, house 11emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 12Jupiter, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Aries, house 10Uranushome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 3Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 3Marswork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 11emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Libra, house 4emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 6Venuscareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Aries, house 10Sun, Moon, Saturnfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 12Mercurythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as Tucker

David Boreanaz was born on May 16, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from San Francisco, at 37.8°N, nothing below −52.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Tucker’s cards

Computed from May 16, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tucker’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q743162 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tucker Carlson.

Quick answers about Tucker Carlson’s chart

How old is Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Carlson is 57 years old, born May 16, 1969 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Carlson is a Taurus: born May 16, 1969, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Tucker Carlson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1969 birth.
What time was Tucker Carlson born?
10:07 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Tucker Carlson's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 10:07 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Tucker Carlson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Tucker Carlson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 5°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Tucker Carlson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 7°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tucker Carlson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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