Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, The Mount, United Kingdom; died 1882), was an English naturalist and biologist. Darwin is best remembered for The Power of Movement in Plants, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Darwin's honours include Copley Medal, Royal Medal and Darwin Medal.
Charles Darwin’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Charles Darwin’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
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 is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Charles is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Charles creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Charles fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charles sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Darwin at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Charles Darwin's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1809, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Charles Darwin's birth date, February 12, 1809, 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 Darwin's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Darwin combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Darwin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Charles’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.2° to 1.3° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineMars1.6° to 2.5° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.6° to 4.1° orb
Charles’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.8° to 4.3° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Charles’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineSaturn3.7° to 4.8° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrinePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Charles’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesquarePluto6.9° orb
Charles’s imagination grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°44′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Charles making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresPisces 12°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Charles is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 20°24′ (moves 0.68° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 4°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Charles is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Charles is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.9°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Darwin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Charles
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from February 12, 1809, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Darwin, 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 Q1035, 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 Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Darwin 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 Darwin.
Quick answers about Charles Darwin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Darwin?
- Charles Darwin was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1809, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Charles Darwin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1809 birth.
- What time was Charles Darwin 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 Darwin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 12, 1809 birth date.
- What was Charles Darwin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 12, 1809 birth date.
- Where was Charles Darwin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Darwin's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
