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Johnny Carson’s birth chart

Talk show hostBorn October 23, 1925, Corning, Iowa, United StatesDied January 23, 2005

Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness.

  • SunLibraor Scorpio
  • MoonCapricornThe Steady Hand
  • VenusSagittariusThe Adventurer

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Libra or Scorpio, the Diplomat

    Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness. Has a gift for making people feel at ease with each other. Imagination and identity worked together: he could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.

    The Sun sextile Neptune (wide at 5.4°) · For a birth after 4:32 p.m., his Sun was in Scorpio.

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Capricorn, the Steady Hand

    Handles feelings by getting on with things. Needs security, respect and quiet proof of being needed. Quick feelings and a quick temper: he reacted first, and his courage came from the same place as his flashes of anger.

    The Moon square Mars (almost exact at 0.1°)

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Sagittarius, the Adventurer

    Loves openly and with good humour. Needs freedom, honesty and someone to explore the world with. Affection and the need for control kept getting in each other’s way, and trust took him time.

    Venus quincunx Pluto (almost exact at 0.7°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Scorpio, the Investigator

    A penetrating mind. Reads people well, speaks carefully and can tell when something is being hidden. A probing mind: he got to the bottom of things, and his words had power when he chose to use them.

    Mercury trine Pluto (wide at 4.3°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Libra, the Negotiator

    Persuasive rather than forceful. Wins people over and stands up hardest for what is fair. He took on more than any one person could, and his boldness ran ahead of his plans.

    Mars square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.6°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    Pluto is the hub of his chart: it takes part in six of its aspects, more than any other body, so his intensity touched everything else in it. Most of his planets are in water signs: feeling and intuition.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Johnny Carson was born six days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 38% lit, in Capricorn. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Friday, 30 days after the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Johnny Carson, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1984, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1954 and 1955. When is yours?

You and Johnny Carson

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Johnny Carson’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

Also born on October 23

Questions about his chart

What is Johnny Carson’s zodiac sign?

Libra or Scorpio. The Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio at 4:32 p.m. that day, local time: in Libra for a birth before then, in Scorpio for one after.

What is Johnny Carson’s Moon sign?

Capricorn, the Steady Hand. Handles feelings by getting on with things. Needs security, respect and quiet proof of being needed.

What is Johnny Carson’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on October 23, 1925. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Johnny Carson’s Venus sign?

Sagittarius, the Adventurer. Loves openly and with good humour. Needs freedom, honesty and someone to explore the world with.

How does your chart compare with Johnny Carson’s?

Set your chart beside Johnny Carson’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Johnny Carson’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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