Charles Ducal
Charles Ducal (born April 3, 1952, Leuven, Belgium), aged 74, is a Poet and author from Belgium. Ducal has served as Poet of Belgium. Ducal's honours include Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt award.
Charles Ducal’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Charles Ducal’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Charles is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Charles, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Charles Ducal's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Charles Ducal was born on April 3, 1952, which falls in a Water 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 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Charles Ducal's birth date, April 3, 1952, 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
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Ducal's date-only chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Ducal combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Ducal, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Charles’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.6° to 2.7° orb
Charles’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb
Charles’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 4.3° orb
Charles’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
Charles’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
Charles’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.5° orb
Charles’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineMars3.4° to 4.7° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.5° to 4.8° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSuntrinePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°17′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Charles is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresAries 18°40′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Charles looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCancer 0°40′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Charles is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 16°51′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Charles feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Charles is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.8°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.4°
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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Charles is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.9°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Ducal, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from April 3, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Ducal, 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 Q13461807, 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 Amy Perier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Ducal at 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 Ducal.
Quick answers about Charles Ducal’s chart
- How old is Charles Ducal?
- Charles Ducal is 74 years old, born April 3, 1952 in Leuven, Belgium.
- What zodiac sign is Charles Ducal?
- Charles Ducal is an Aries: born April 3, 1952, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- What is Charles Ducal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1952 birth.
- What time was Charles Ducal 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 is Charles Ducal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 3, 1952 birth date.
- What is Charles Ducal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 3, 1952 birth date.
- Where is Charles Ducal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charles Ducal's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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