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Charles Brenton Huggins

Charles Brenton Huggins (born September 22, 1901, Halifax, Canada; died 1997), was an American physiologist. Huggins's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru.

Charles Brenton Huggins’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Charles Brenton Huggins’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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

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

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

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What the chart says

Charles, according to the stars

Core essence

Charles notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Charles is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

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 completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Charles even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Charles creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Charles runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Charles sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Charles

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charles

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charles

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Charles Brenton Huggins's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Metal Ox

Slow, steady, never quits.

Charles Brenton Huggins was born on September 22, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Charles Brenton Huggins's birth date, September 22, 1901, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Charles Brenton Huggins, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.6° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.6° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Virgo · 28°57′28°Moon in Capricorn · 17°22′17°Mercury in Libra · 18°01′18°Venus in Scorpio · 6°12′Mars in Scorpio · 14°42′14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°02′Saturn in Capricorn · 9°50′Uranus in Sagittarius · 13°17′13°Neptune in Cancer · 1°27′Pluto in Gemini · 18°42′ · retrograde18°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Charles’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.2° orb

    Charles’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter1.6° to 2.7° orb

    Charles’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Charles’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.6° orb

    Charles’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.0° to 4.2° orb

    Charles’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.2° to 5.3° orb

    Charles’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.6° to 5.5° orb

    Charles’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.4° orb

    Charles’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.8° orb

    Charles’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.2° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ChironSagittarius 29°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Charles building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

  • CeresTaurus 11°13′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Charles is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ErosScorpio 25°43′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Charles is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • HygieaPisces 25°41′ (moves 0.20° 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 LilithScorpio 14°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Charles is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.2°
  • Chiron square Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Neptune 1.7°

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. 1. Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Charles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn 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 Mars 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Brenton Huggins, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Charles’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Water

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Charles Brenton Huggins, 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 Q155371, 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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles Brenton Huggins at Wikipedia.

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.

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Quick answers about Charles Brenton Huggins’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Brenton Huggins?
Charles Brenton Huggins was a Virgo: born September 22, 1901, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox.
What was Charles Brenton Huggins's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1901 birth.
What time was Charles Brenton Huggins 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.
What was Charles Brenton Huggins's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 22, 1901 birth date.
What was Charles Brenton Huggins's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 22, 1901 birth date.
Where was Charles Brenton Huggins's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Brenton Huggins's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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