Charles Addams
Charles Addams (born January 7, 1912, Westfield, United States; died 1988), was an American cartoonist. Addams is best remembered for The Addams Family. Addams's honours include New Jersey Hall of Fame, Will Eisner Hall of Fame and Edgar Awards.
Charles Addams’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Addams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Charles in the U.S.?
#48
US rank in 2025
~2,447,135
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 11,070 American boys and 67 girls named Charles in 1912: 7th among boys and 597th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Charles apart
Jeremy Renner (1971) and Nicolas Cage (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Charles is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Charles and watch them fall for you again.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charles creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Charles is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Charles is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Charles's birth date. Working below.
Where Charles sits
Six lines
Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Charles Addams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Westfield on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Westfield that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Westfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Westfield sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Westfield on any night.
The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Mercury
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Charles Addams at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Charles Addams's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 7, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Charles Addams was born on January 7, 1912, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Charles Addams's birth date, January 7, 1912, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Addams' date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Addams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
Charles’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.2° to 3.2° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
Charles’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.8° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.0° to 7.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 3°41′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 29°41′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°08′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°47′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 13°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron square Venus 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.7°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.8°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Charles’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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- Jeremy Renner1971
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Charles’s cards
Computed from January 7, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q361106 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Photo by Irving Penn 1947, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Addams at Wikipedia, charlesaddams.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Addams.
Quick answers about Charles Addams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Addams?
- Charles Addams was a Capricorn: born January 7, 1912, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles Addams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1912 birth.
- What was Charles Addams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Addams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles Addams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Addams's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
