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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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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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.

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

Charles ranked 9th among boys and 831st among girls in 1952, the year of this birth, with 38,866 American boys and 121 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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 · 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

The record

What sets Charles apart

Marlon Brando (1924) and Jane Goodall (1934) 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 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. 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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charles

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charles

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Leuven on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Charles’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 23.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Leuven that night

Computed for 50.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Leuven at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 50.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 64% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aries Sun

Fires 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.

What Aries means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Charles Ducal was born on April 3, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Charles Ducal's birth date, April 3, 1952, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 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 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.2° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbSun in Aries · 13°38′☉13°Moon in Cancer · 25°29′☽25°Mercury in Aries · 17°06′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Pisces · 21°59′♀21°Mars in Scorpio · 17°58′ · retrograde♂℞17°Jupiter in Aries · 23°54′♃23°Saturn in Libra · 11°28′ · retrograde♄℞11°Uranus in Cancer · 10°01′♅10°Neptune in Libra · 20°32′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Leo · 19°16′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.4° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°17′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 18°40′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 0°40′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 16°51′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quincunx Mars 0.9°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from April 3, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13461807 (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 Amy Perier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.
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 is Charles Ducal's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Charles Ducal's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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