Karlach is one of my favorite characters in the whole game, and I’m really excited to be delving into her next.

She is one of those types of people that puts it all out there for people, and does not give two shits what they think.

So with that being said, I’m going to be going into her chart just like the others. Based on pure vibes only. None of this is cannon based on the fact that they aren’t on Earth, and we don’t have canon birthdays.

So with nothing further, let’s get in to it with our Fiery Friend-

Presenting- Baldur’s Gate Charts Karlach.

If there is one thing that I have learned about Karlach over my many hours, it is that she a deeply caring person. Well. Deeply, emotive I guess is the way to put it.

Leading me to say that Karlach is a Cancer moon.

Karlach genuinely cares about the people that she’s traveling with. She goes out of her way to make sure that they are taken care of, and looked after. You can see that through her dialogue, and her reactions to what’s going on around her.

This is put on clear display after every major event that happens within the companions. She’s constantly thinking about the safety and well-being of the people that she’s come to care about. All of this while also being very intune with herself and what she’s feeling. Albeit, it’s not necessarily the calm waves usually expected from Cancer and more like white water rafting when it comes to emotions-

But I digress Karlach’s in tune with herself, making me very confident in this placement.

“Look, I’ve got you. If you need a rest, lean on me. If you need a hand, take mine, if you need an ear, I’ve got two. Whatever you need.”

One of my favorite things is the rising sign, because it really is who you are to everyone else right? Then you take that and place it up against your sun and moon, and see what you got working. Because that shows how your inner self lines up with your outer self. Are you wearing a mask? Or are you being genuine?

Let me tell ya, Karlach’s genuine, leading me to believe that she is an Aries rising.

As I said before Karlach is a very passionate person and she puts her whole self out there. Leading me to believe that her inner-self aligns with her outer self in totality. She can’t sit still, she doesn’t like being bored, she likes to handle her problems head on.

Overall, Karlach isn’t the type to avoid drama, or study her problems from afar. She doesn’t have time for that, just like an Aries rising.

“Ah, fine. I’ll be here eating dirt or whatever.”

Karlach’s pretty blunt, and not super poetic. Though she has very colorful language.

Between the options of Pisces, Aries, and Taurus- what do you think she is?

Right, it’s Aries again (I’m sensing another pattern).

Aries tends to have this way of keeping conversations engaging, and lit up. Which Karlach certainly does. When she talks it’s hard not to listen, at least in my own opinion. The way that she speaks shows the flow of her emotions, mashed with her own level of spunk. Giving incredible dialogue when she’s going into a rage, or facing off against Gortash.

Not to mention they have a penitent for the truth, brutal levels of honesty. I don’t know how many have, but reading through her dialogue, it physically pains me to read through the breakup dialogue. She tears you a new one, she does not soften her blows. Karlach will always come at you with her full mind, and tell you exactly what’s on it, not holding anything back.

“Well, tell him to pick the right one. Better yet, I’ll do it.”

There’s a range of five signs to pick from. For me. I think it’s pretty clear what her venus is out of the restrictions that I’ve placed on myself.

Karlach is a Taurus venus. (After a lot of internal debate).

So the thing with Karlach is that there is no doubt in my mind that the Aries part of her takes up a lot of her reactions to different situations. However, her main placement here is Taurus.

When romancing Karlach she says that she feels less changeable, and that she’s ready for what’s coming.

My guess is growing up the Aries portion took over a lot of those quick flare feelings. But now that she’s had the time to actually sit down with someone she can actually tap into her Venus, finding something stable and reliable within someone else. Allowing herself to find the harmony that she has been missing out on for so long. The softer side of Venus showing when she takes you on a date, and in her act two romance scene where you take things slow.

Karlach is a very sweet woman, and I’m honestly really happy with this placement for her.

“making you laugh is my greatest accomplishment, every time I manage it.”

Karlach is the kind of person where her rage and anger is definitely pointed, and she holds a deep vendetta against those who have wronged her.

Karlach is a Scorpio Mars.

For me this was a bit of a harder placement, it was between Scorpio and Aries again. But the reason I figured Scorpio over Aries is because it rolls back to the fact that Karlach really hasn’t had the time to grow into herself outside of Aries. If she was fully an Aries Mars when confronting Gortash during his coronation, she would go off the rails and try to gut him there. But she doesn’t. She trusts the player to make the right moves. Instead choosing to act on her own need for vengeance at a later time. Knowing that she is going to have her opportunity.

It goes to show that she knows when things need to be taken care of later, yet still holds the same amount of intensity as the fire signs. Now this placed with her Taurus venus (opposition right?), goes to show that she’s a very passionate and intense lover. Which I think is well enough said.

“She’ll try to break our best asset: Our trust. Fortunately she’s no match for our second-best asset: me.”

Karlach has one of the hardest lives we know of in the Baldur’s Gate universe (that being said this is not the pain olympics). But Karlach is one of the people that definitely didn’t have it easy in any sort of manner. Grew up in the outer city, both of her parents died when she was young, got sold off to the blood war by a step-in paternal figure, lost her heart, and then fought in said war for ten years. Just to escape to get a mind flayer tadpole in the eye, and then finds out she can’t even stay.

That being said, Karlach is a Sagittarius Jupiter.

Yeeeeeeeah. The luckiest sign in the zodiac belongs to Karlach. Albeit the crap hand that Karlach has been dealt she is still incredibly positive. Always looking to the brighter side of life, taking every moment for what it’s worth, and enjoying anything that she can get out of it.

Karlach always talks about how great it is to be back, with people she cares about and can trust, all the little things she missed being in Avernus. This is the mark of someone who truly appreciates the world for what it is, and doesn’t want to miss a thing. Speaking to Sagittarius Jupiter on a whole other level.

Karlach wants to live her life, and experience all the good things coming out of it. Ignoring the bad hands being dealt towards her. She still looks for those little silver moments: Minthara getting pregnant, finding romance with the time she has remaining, being able to touch again.

I could go on and on, but I think it’s best summed up in the quote below.

“For every knock we take, I feel like I get a little treat just to keep me going.”

Just as Karlach’s Jupiter is in Sagittarius, her Saturn is as well.

She gets the best and the worst of the world. Constantly getting luck and then losing it just as fast. Two sides of the same coin. Structure and Karmic learning paired with the growth and expansion of Jupiter.

One thing that we know about Karlach is she’s pretty stubborn. She won’t listen about returning to the hells while looking for a cure, she doesn’t want to talk about it, when she does talk about the fact that she’s going to die she feels feels like she needs to enjoy every last bit of life cause there’s not much left.

All the while being terrified that this is actually going to happen. Whether she wants it to or not. She is going to die, and there is nothing she can do. Everything that she wants to experience and still be there for, she can’t. Wishful thinking, and dreams that can’t come true (or what she thinks). To have these both here within these placements and conjunct one another speaks to a person who has taken a beating and learned from it. Still able to look at the bright side of everything.

While also knowing the loss that can be coming your way in a moments notice. Saturn gives us our life lessons, and Karlach learned them. When Sagittarius is here the life lessons to learn is avoiding hypocrisy, listening to others’ viewpoints, making your own code of conduct and following it, finding your morals- and she does. Karlach had to. Fighting in a war for ten years would change anyone. But it doesn’t get to Karlach because she learned how to strengthen her own resolve.

Creating the badass tiefling we all know and love.

“I don’t have the luxury of avoiding what’s coming. “

One of the things I’m sure you noted is that most of Karlach’s placements are in Aries. Giving her a stellium.

Here’s the thing. People with Stelliums are destined to have a karmically difficult path. As i’ve said Karalch has had an incredibly difficult one that she’s been walking. Now unlike the lessons of Jupiter and Saturn that look at the teaching of finding the brighter optimistic paths of life, and living it to the fullest, while maintaining a grounded approach. The stellium does not.

Specifically, dependent on stellium, you find the path that the person needs to learn from. Karlach needs to learn how to not be so trusting, when to not put her whole-self into something. When to take her heart off of her sleeve. Because her stellium is found in the first house. Her Sun, Rising, and Mercury conjuncting off of one another. This leads to identity and how you personally interact with the world.

Karlach’s lesson and the one that I think she is really truly learning within the confines of the story, is how to not be so damn independent. Aries is a sign that focused on the “I” of things. Karlach, while she enjoys being around other people, and caring about them, most certainly does not trust anyone else with any of the crap she’s going through. Not wanting to subject anyone else to it.

But it’s right there isn’t it? Right at the end of it all, when she finally has people she knows she can trust and she doesn’t have to be the the strongest anymore, that she can finally see reason. Where she listens to the people who care, where they say the world will be better with her in it. That she choose to let go of that full independence and start working on that healthy interdependence that is the cornerstone of most relationships.

“I think we’re just those kind of people. Excitable, weapon-wielding fuckers with a flair for drama.”

That wraps up it up for Karlach. She has definitely been one of the easiest characters for me to place based on vibes. I kind of knew as soon as I saw her within game what I would expect her birth chart to be. One of the things that made her so easy is just the way that she’s so bright and emotive. There are only so many signs that can lend to that kind of energy, that amount of boldness. Which I suppose is one of the reasons that I love her character so much.

She really doesn’t hide herself from you, and tells you what she’s thinking. She’s genuine, excitable, curious, and she cares. Even when I was looking through her dialogue there wasn’t anything that really came as a surprise. She doesn’t change her manner of speech, her personality for anyone. Not even the player. Karlach is who she is, and that will and always be one badass barbarian who could throw us over her shoulder, should the need arise.

Stay groovy, and I’ll catch you on the flip,