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Charles Durning

Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923, Highland Falls, United States; died 2012), was an American actor. Durning's honours include Legion of Honour, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Purple Heart.

Charles Durning’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Charles Durning’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

Charles ranked 5th among boys and 570th among girls in 1923, the year of this birth, with 28,966 American boys and 159 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1).

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 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Charles apart

Charles Durning took the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in 2006, at 83.

James I. O'Neill High School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1951, at 28.

The grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Charles Durning under People from Highlands, New York, Male actors from Orange County, New York and Landmine victims.

Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
James I. O'Neill High School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Awards
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor (2006)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1951
Buried at
Arlington National Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
48

What the chart says

Charles, according to the stars

Core essence

Charles feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Charles is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Charles you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charles creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Charles gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charles Durning

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

Charles’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 80.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 63.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Highland Falls that night

Computed for 41.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Highland Falls at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.6° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Highland Falls at all: they sit past the −48.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Highland Falls, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2012.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charles Durning: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Charles Durning's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Charles Durning was born on February 28, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Charles Durning's birth date, February 28, 1923, 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 29° to 13° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.1° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Pisces · 9°06′☉9°Moon in Leo · 6°08′☽6°Mercury in Aquarius · 12°59′☿12°Venus in Capricorn · 23°47′♀23°Mars in Aries · 27°38′♂27°Jupiter in Scorpio · 18°54′♃18°Saturn in Libra · 19°21′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Pisces · 13°17′♅13°Neptune in Leo · 16°12′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 9°12′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.8° orb

    Charles’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.7° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn5.7° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.4° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 14°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°48′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 18°21′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°48′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.0°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.0°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.6°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.6°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from February 28, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329784 (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 Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles Durning at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Durning.

Quick answers about Charles Durning’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Durning?
Charles Durning was a Pisces: born February 28, 1923, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Durning's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1923 birth.
How tall was Charles Durning?
Charles Durning was 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Charles Durning's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Durning's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Durning's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Durning's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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