Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915, Greenville, United States, 05:00; died 2015), was a 20th-century American physicist. Townes is best remembered for maser. Townes's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and IEEE Medal of Honor.
Charles Hard Townes’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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Charles Hard Townes’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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
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
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Charles is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Charles needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Charles gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charles creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Charles is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Charles scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Charles Hard Townes's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Charles Hard Townes was born on July 28, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Charles Hard Townes's birth date, July 28, 1915, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Charles Hard Townes' timed chart: Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house, Saturn in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Hard Townes' timed chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Charles Hard Townes combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Charles’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarstrineUranusseparating · 1.3° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 2.0° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoontrinePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
Charles’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
Charles’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 4.1° orb
Charles’s growth grinds against their depths.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 4.4° orb
Charles’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SuntrineJupiterseparating · 5.9° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 6.8° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their growth.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.2° orb
Charles’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.5° orb
Charles’s mind and discipline act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°15′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Charles absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°06′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Charles is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 5°35′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Charles is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLeo 22°41′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Charles at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°52′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Charles that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron trine Venus 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.9°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Charles is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Moon quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Moon semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Charles’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 8 | Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 2 | Sun, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Pisces, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Cancer, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aquarius, house 8 | Moon, Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 2 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from July 28, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184566, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
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Quick answers about Charles Hard Townes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Hard Townes?
- Charles Hard Townes was a Leo: born July 28, 1915, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- What was Charles Hard Townes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1915 birth.
- What time was Charles Hard Townes born?
- 05:00 local time in Greenville, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Charles Hard Townes's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 05:00 birth time in Greenville, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Charles Hard Townes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 28, 1915 birth date.
- What was Charles Hard Townes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 28, 1915 birth time.
- Where was Charles Hard Townes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Hard Townes's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
