Charles Fefferman
Charles Fefferman (born April 18, 1949, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 77, is an American mathematician. Fefferman's honours include Fields medal, Bôcher Memorial Prize and Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Charles Fefferman’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Fefferman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
The SSA recorded 40,052 American boys and 143 girls named Charles in 1949: 9th among boys and 709th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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
The Salem Prize came in 1971, when Charles Fefferman was 22.
Study took Charles Fefferman to Princeton University.
Wikipedia files Charles Fefferman under American mathematical analysts, Mathematicians from Washington, D.C. and Complex analysts.
Conan O'Brien (1963) and Haile Gebrselassie (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Awards
- Fields medal (1978), Bôcher Memorial Prize (2008) and Salem Prize (1971)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Charles needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Charles creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 61% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · No Water planets · 2 planets at a critical degree
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Charles Fefferman's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Charles Fefferman was born on April 18, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Charles Fefferman's birth date, April 18, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Fefferman's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Fefferman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.3° to 0.6° orb
Charles’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.6° to 1.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 8°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 13°22′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°09′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°31′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.9°
- Eros square Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.8°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Charles’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
More people like Charles
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- Michael Freedman1951
- Sergei Novikov1938
- Edward Witten1951
- David Mumford1937
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Born in United States
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- Lawrence KasdanAmerican film director and film producer
- George Ella LyonAmerican writer from Kentucky (1949- )
- James LapineAmerican stage director and librettist. (born 1949)
- Ron WydenAmerican politician and educator (born 1949)
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Also born on April 18
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Charles’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q284129 (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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Fefferman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Fefferman.
Quick answers about Charles Fefferman’s chart
- How old is Charles Fefferman?
- Charles Fefferman is 77 years old, born April 18, 1949 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Charles Fefferman?
- Charles Fefferman is an Aries: born April 18, 1949, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Charles Fefferman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1949 birth.
- What is Charles Fefferman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Charles Fefferman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Charles Fefferman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charles Fefferman's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
