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Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson (born November 3, 1921, Ehrenfeld, United States; died 2003), was an American actor. Bronson's honours include Purple Heart, Henrietta Award and Golden Boot Awards.

Charles Bronson’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Charles Bronson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Charles, according to the stars

Core essence

Charles does not do surface. The core of Charles is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Charles is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Charles gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charles creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Charles is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Charles channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Charles Bronson's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 3, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Charles Bronson was born on November 3, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Charles Bronson's birth date, November 3, 1921, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Charles Bronson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Sagittarius or 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.9° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 5° orbSun in Scorpio · 10°45′10°Moon in Sagittarius · 26°31′26°Mercury in Scorpio · 3°33′ · retrogradeVenus in Libra · 17°19′17°Mars in Virgo · 28°11′28°Jupiter in Libra · 8°08′Saturn in Libra · 3°07′Uranus in Pisces · 5°46′ · retrogradeNeptune in Leo · 15°55′15°Pluto in Cancer · 9°57′ · retrograde

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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Conjunction
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

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.

  • stableSuntrinePluto0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Charles’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb

    Charles’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb

    Charles’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.2° orb

    Charles’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb

    Charles’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 5.2° orb

    Charles’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.1° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.9° to 6.9° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb

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

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.

  • ChironAries 10°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Charles may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresLibra 4°14′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Charles is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ErosPisces 6°40′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Charles is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaLibra 27°02′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Charles is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 23°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Charles at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Chiron square Pluto 0.5°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 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. 1. Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Charles is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Bronson, 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 Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yin Metal

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Earth

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Charles Bronson, 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 Q36105, 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 Herald American, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles Bronson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Bronson.

Quick answers about Charles Bronson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Bronson?
Charles Bronson was a Scorpio: born November 3, 1921, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
What was Charles Bronson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 3, 1921 birth.
What time was Charles Bronson 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 was Charles Bronson?
Charles Bronson was 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Charles Bronson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 3, 1921 birth date.
What was Charles Bronson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 3, 1921 birth date.
Where was Charles Bronson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Bronson's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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