Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley (born February 20, 1963, Leeds, United States), aged 63, is an American basketball player (born 1963). Barkley is best known for Space Jam. Barkley's honours include NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award, NBA Most Valuable Player Award and Best NBA Player ESPY Award.
Charles Barkley’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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Charles Barkley’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Charles apart
Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Charles is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Charles needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Charles you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Charles builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 5 is the free spirit. Charles is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Charles fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Charles Barkley at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Charles Barkley's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Charles Barkley was born on February 20, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Charles Barkley's birth date, February 20, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Barkley's date-only chart is Saturn square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Charles Barkley combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Barkley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.5° orb
Charles’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Charles’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.3° to 1.5° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.4° to 2.5° orb
Charles’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.0° to 3.5° orb
Charles’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto4.9° to 6.0° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune6.5° to 6.8° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.7° to 7.1° orb
Charles’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.8° orb
Charles’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 9°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Charles absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 13°23′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Charles caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°19′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Charles attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaPisces 24°30′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Charles needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Charles that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.3°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Charles’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Charles is read as tuned to what is not said.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Charles’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Barkley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from February 20, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Barkley, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192707, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Wright-Patt AFB, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Barkley at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Charles Barkley.
Quick answers about Charles Barkley’s chart
- How old is Charles Barkley?
- Charles Barkley is 63 years old, born February 20, 1963 in Leeds, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Charles Barkley?
- Charles Barkley is a Pisces: born February 20, 1963, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- What is Charles Barkley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1963 birth.
- What time was Charles Barkley born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall is Charles Barkley?
- Charles Barkley is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Charles Barkley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1963 birth date.
- What is Charles Barkley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1963 birth date.
- Where is Charles Barkley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charles Barkley's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
