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Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla (born June 7, 1877, Widnes, United Kingdom; died 1944), was an English physicist. Barkla is best remembered for X-ray crystallography. Barkla's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal and Royal Society Bakerian Medal.

Charles Glover Barkla’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Charles Glover Barkla’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal 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

The earliest American count for Charles is 1880, 3 years on: 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

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against 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

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange

The record

What sets Charles apart

Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) 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 conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Charles needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Charles like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Charles creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

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.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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

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 Glover Barkla

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

Charles’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 86.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.5° 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 Widnes that night

Computed for 53.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Widnes was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 86.1° up.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Widnes sits at 53.4°N, high enough that Vega, 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 −36.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 17% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Gemini · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Charles Glover Barkla's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1877, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Charles Glover Barkla was born on June 7, 1877, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Charles Glover Barkla's birth date, June 7, 1877, 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 17° to 0° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.1° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Gemini · 16°47′☉16°Moon in Aries · 24°13′☽24°Mercury in Gemini · 1°10′ · retrograde☿℞1°Venus in Gemini · 25°14′♀25°Mars in Pisces · 0°10′♂0°Jupiter in Capricorn · 0°19′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Pisces · 19°53′♄19°Uranus in Leo · 21°18′♅21°Neptune in Taurus · 6°31′♆6°Pluto in Taurus · 24°35′♇24°

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

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.7° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

    Charles’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.4° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.6° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn4.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.3° to 5.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.1° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 2°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 16°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 18°52′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 4°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Sun 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 1.0°
  • Eros square Sun 2.1°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.6°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.6°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from June 7, 1877. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q160522 (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 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Charles Glover Barkla’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Glover Barkla?
Charles Glover Barkla was a Gemini: born June 7, 1877, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Glover Barkla's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1877 birth.
What was Charles Glover Barkla's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Glover Barkla's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Glover Barkla's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Glover Barkla's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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