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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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
The SSA recorded 3,049 American boys and 23 girls named Charles in 1901: 5th among boys and 665th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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 · 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
The record
What sets Charles apart
Michael Faraday (1791) and Andrea Bocelli (1958) 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 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. 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Halifax on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Halifax that night
Computed for 44.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Halifax was Deneb, in Cygnus, 85.2° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Halifax sits at 44.6°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 70% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes 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.
What Virgo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxSlow, steady, never quits.
Charles Brenton Huggins was born on September 22, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone'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.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Brenton Huggins' date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Brenton Huggins combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Capricorn 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
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
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.6° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.2° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 29°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 11°13′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 25°43′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 25°41′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°32′ (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 conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Chiron square Sun 0.8°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Neptune 1.7°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Charles’s chart
T-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
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Charles’s cards
Computed from September 22, 1901. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155371 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 was Charles Brenton Huggins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Brenton Huggins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
