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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

Of the names registered in 1921, Charles came 5th among boys and 539th among girls, carried by 29,242 American boys and 176 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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

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 record

What sets Charles apart

Dolph Lundgren (1957) and Anna Wintour (1949) 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 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. Working below.

Where Charles sits

Six lines

Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

The sky over Ehrenfeld that night

Computed for 40.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Ehrenfeld at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 13.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 96 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ehrenfeld on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Grand trine

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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.

What Scorpio means →

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.

What the Rooster means →

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.

What Life Path 9 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 20° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

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′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Libra · 17°19′♀17°Mars in Virgo · 28°11′♂28°Jupiter in Libra · 8°08′♃8°Saturn in Libra · 3°07′♄3°Uranus in Pisces · 5°46′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Leo · 15°55′♆15°Pluto in Cancer · 9°57′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Pluto 0.5°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.3°

Charles’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Charles’s chart

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

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

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Charles’s cards

Computed from November 3, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q36105 (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 Herald American, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles Bronson at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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.
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.
What was Charles Bronson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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