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Charles Albert Gobat

Charles Albert Gobat (born May 21, 1843, Tramelan, Switzerland; died 1914), was a Swiss politician and lawyer. Gobat held office as Member of the Grand Council of Bern and Member of the Swiss Council of States. Gobat's honours include Nobel Peace Prize.

Charles Albert Gobat’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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

US name records start in 1880, 37 years after this birth. In that first year Charles ranked 4th among boys and 520th among girls, with 5,348 American boys and 11 girls registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.

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

6 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

—

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Charles apart

The Nobel Peace Prize came in 1902, when Charles Albert Gobat was 59.

Study took Charles Albert Gobat to University of Basel and Heidelberg University.

Charles Albert Gobat lies at Bremgarten cemetery.

Charles Albert Gobat was raised one child.

Louis Renault 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.

Educated at
University of Basel and Heidelberg University
Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (1902)
Nominated for
Nobel Peace Prize
Buried at
Bremgarten cemetery
Citizenship
Switzerland
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
71

What the chart says

Charles, according to the stars

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles 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 Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Charles creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Charles is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Charles 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 Charles's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tramelan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Charles’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 18.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Tramelan that night

Computed for 47.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Tramelan at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.

From 47.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −42.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tramelan on any night.

The Moon, 44% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Taurus or Gemini Sun

Charles Albert Gobat was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Water Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Charles Albert Gobat was born on May 21, 1843, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Charles Albert Gobat's birth date, May 21, 1843, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.7° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun in Taurus · 29°43′☉29°Moon in Pisces · 3°16′☽3°Mercury in Gemini · 22°07′☿22°Venus in Aries · 25°06′♀25°Mars in Sagittarius · 19°40′ · retrograde♂℞19°Jupiter in Aquarius · 26°26′♃26°Saturn in Capricorn · 25°37′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Aries · 1°23′♅1°Neptune in Aquarius · 21°30′♆21°Pluto in Aries · 22°18′♇22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Charles’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Charles’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Charles’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars1.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 10°53′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 10°07′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 16°42′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 27°47′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.7°
  • Eros sextile Mars 3.0°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars7 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°

Born the same day as Charles

Louis Renault was born on May 21, 1843 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Tramelan, at 47.2°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Charles’s cards

Computed from May 21, 1843. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

6 · Guardian
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179458 (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.

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Quick answers about Charles Albert Gobat’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Albert Gobat?
Charles Albert Gobat was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What was Charles Albert Gobat's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1843 birth.
What was Charles Albert Gobat's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Albert Gobat's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Albert Gobat's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Albert Gobat's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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