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Charles Édouard Guillaume

Charles Édouard Guillaume (born February 15, 1861, Fleurier, Switzerland; died 1938), was a Swiss physicist. Guillaume served as director. Guillaume's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Charles Édouard Guillaume’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Charles Édouard Guillaume’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

No US figure exists for 1861 — the SSA series begins 19 years later. Charles opened it at 4th among boys and 520th among girls, 5,348 American boys and 11 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

6

Soul Urge · being needed

22

Personality · quietly formidable

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 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Charles apart

Megan Thee Stallion (1995) and Miranda July (1974) 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 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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Charles be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Charles creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

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 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: 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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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 Édouard Guillaume

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

Charles’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 81° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.9° 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 Fleurier that night

Computed for 46.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fleurier was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 81.0° up.

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

Fleurier sits at 46.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −43.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 30% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet

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Charles Édouard Guillaume at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Charles Édouard Guillaume's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1861, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

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Metal Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Charles Édouard Guillaume was born on February 15, 1861, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Charles Édouard Guillaume's birth date, February 15, 1861, 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 23° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.7° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.8° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 26°50′☉26°Moon in Aries · 29°02′☽29°Mercury in Pisces · 8°41′☿8°Venus in Aquarius · 5°22′♀5°Mars in Aries · 28°30′♂28°Jupiter in Leo · 21°25′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Virgo · 6°52′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Gemini · 7°59′♅7°Neptune in Pisces · 27°54′♆27°Pluto in Taurus · 7°39′♇7°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Charles’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.6° orb

    Charles’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.1° to 1.9° orb

    Charles’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.9° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars1.5° to 1.8° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.7° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°26′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 10°38′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 7°47′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°12′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, 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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.5°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from February 15, 1861. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123026 (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 Auguste Léon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Charles Édouard Guillaume’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Édouard Guillaume?
Charles Édouard Guillaume was an Aquarius: born February 15, 1861, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Édouard Guillaume's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1861 birth.
What was Charles Édouard Guillaume's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Édouard Guillaume's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Édouard Guillaume's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Édouard Guillaume's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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