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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Ox, with 
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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.
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever 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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Ox
Fire OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Charles Glover Barkla was born on June 7, 1877, which falls in a Fire 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 9Wide view, open hands.
Charles Glover Barkla's birth date, June 7, 1877, 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 Glover Barkla's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Glover Barkla combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Glover Barkla, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Aries or Taurus 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.
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
Charles’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb
Charles’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.4° to 5.8° orb
Charles’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineMars4.6° to 5.3° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.7° orb
Charles’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.8° to 5.9° orb
Charles’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto5.3° to 5.8° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.1° to 6.3° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Charles building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Charles is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 18°52′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Charles is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLibra 4°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Charles is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Charles at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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 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°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Charles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Glover Barkla, 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 June 7, 1877, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles Glover Barkla, 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 Q160522, 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 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Glover Barkla 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- 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 time was Charles Glover Barkla 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 was Charles Glover Barkla's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the June 7, 1877 birth date.
- What was Charles Glover Barkla's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 7, 1877 birth date.
- 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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