Karen Carpenter’s birth chart
SingerBorn March 2, 1950, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesDied February 4, 1983
Soft-hearted and full of imagination.
- SunPiscesThe Dreamer
- MoonLeoThe Warm Heart
- VenusAquariusThe Kindred Spirit
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Pisces, the Dreamer
Soft-hearted and full of imagination. Picks up on feelings nobody has said out loud. Aim and action ran at different speeds, and she spent real effort keeping them in step.
The Sun quincunx Mars (close at 2.7°)
What she needed
Moon in Leo, the Warm Heart
Wears her heart where people can see it. Needs warmth, praise and a little attention, and gives all three back. Intense, private feelings: she kept an inner life few people saw, and she guarded it well.
The Moon conjunction Pluto (close at 2.1°)
How she loved
Venus in Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit
Unconventional in love. Drawn to the original and the independent, and needs room inside closeness. Charm and desire worked together: she knew what she wanted in love and how to win it.
Venus trine Mars (wide at 3.9°)
How she thought
Mercury in Aquarius, the Inventor
Original and future-minded. Thinks in systems and finds new ways to do old things. She loved ideas, the bigger the better, and she could talk anyone into hoping.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter (close at 1.0°)
What drove her
Mars in Libra, the Negotiator
Persuasive rather than forceful. Wins people over and stands up hardest for what is fair.
The shape of her chart
In her chart, her mind, her heart and her optimism (Mercury, Venus and Jupiter) gather in Aquarius, and that part of life drew her attention first. The weight of her chart sits in air signs: ideas and people.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Karen Carpenter was born two days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 96% lit, in Leo. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, eighteen days before the March equinox.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Karen Carpenter was born, as it was on 81 days of 1950. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Karen Carpenter, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1979, at 29: her first Saturn return. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Pisces
You and Karen Carpenter
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, and the signs you share.
Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts
The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Karen Carpenter’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Pisces
See allQuestions about her chart
What is Karen Carpenter’s zodiac sign?
Pisces. Karen Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950, with the Sun in Pisces, the Dreamer. Soft-hearted and full of imagination. Picks up on feelings nobody has said out loud.
What is Karen Carpenter’s Moon sign?
Leo, the Warm Heart. Wears her heart where people can see it. Needs warmth, praise and a little attention, and gives all three back.
What is Karen Carpenter’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 March 2, 1950. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Karen Carpenter’s Venus sign?
Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit. Unconventional in love. Drawn to the original and the independent, and needs room inside closeness.
How does your chart compare with Karen Carpenter’s?
Set your chart beside Karen Carpenter’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 Karen Carpenter’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: White House photo by Knudsen, Robert L., 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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