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Charles Gordone

Charles Gordone (born October 12, 1925, Cleveland, United States; died 1995), was an American actor and dramatist. Gordone's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Charles Gordone’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Charles Gordone’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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

In 1925, 29,580 American boys and 216 girls were registered Charles — 5th among boys and 470th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

3 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets Charles apart

Luciano Pavarotti (1935) and Hugh Jackman (1968) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Charles is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Charles needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Charles needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Charles and watch them fall for you again.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Charles creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Charles is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Charles fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charles Gordone

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

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Cleveland that night

Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Deneb, in Cygnus, 75.3° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.

Cleveland sits at 41.5°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 Cleveland at all: they sit past the −48.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 21% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

74 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Uranus · 3-planet stellium in Libra · 2 unaspected planets

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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Charles Gordone in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Charles Gordone's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 12, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Charles Gordone was born on October 12, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Charles Gordone's birth date, October 12, 1925, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 14° to 26° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.7° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Libra · 18°51′☉18°Moon in Leo · 20°39′☽20°Mercury in Libra · 22°40′☿22°Venus in Sagittarius · 1°18′♀1°Mars in Libra · 9°02′♂9°Jupiter in Capricorn · 14°25′♃14°Saturn in Scorpio · 13°42′♄13°Uranus in Pisces · 22°30′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Leo · 24°13′♆24°Pluto in Cancer · 14°45′♇14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Charles’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.7° to 2.4° orb

    Charles’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.4° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 26°23′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 11°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 10°51′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 20°44′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.9°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.9°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.7°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.8°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Mercury, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.2°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.7°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from October 12, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1064577 (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 Mary Frampton, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Charles Gordone’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Gordone?
Charles Gordone was a Libra: born October 12, 1925, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Gordone's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 12, 1925 birth.
What was Charles Gordone's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Gordone's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Gordone's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Gordone's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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