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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Charles Fefferman in 15 seconds
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. 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.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charles Fefferman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Capricorn 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.
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
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
Charles’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.8° to 2.7° orb
Charles’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° orb
Charles’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.8° to 4.8° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.9° to 6.0° orb
Charles’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.1° orb
Charles’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 8°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Charles building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 13°22′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Charles is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 6°09′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Charles is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°31′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Charles is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Charles carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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. ♂ 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
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, 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 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.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Fefferman, 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 18, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles Fefferman, 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 Q284129, 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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Fefferman at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Charles Fefferman 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 Fefferman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 18, 1949 birth date.
- What is Charles Fefferman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 18, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
