Charles Ives
Charles Ives (born October 20, 1874, Danbury, United States; died 1954), was an American modernist composer. Ives is best remembered for Variations on "America" and Symphony No. 3. Ives's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Charles Ives’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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Charles Ives’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 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
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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.
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 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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Charles is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Charles channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charles sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Charles Ives's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1874, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Dog
Wood DogFair, direct, dependable.
Charles Ives was born on October 20, 1874, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Charles Ives's birth date, October 20, 1874, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Ives' date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Ives combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Ives, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableMarstrinePluto0.2° to 0.9° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileMars0.5° to 1.0° orb
Charles’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
Charles’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.7° to 1.8° orb
Charles’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
Charles’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineUranus2.9° to 3.6° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.5° to 4.1° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.5° to 6.6° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.1° orb
Charles’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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 ℞Aries 19°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Charles may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 12°29′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Charles is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 29°19′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Charles is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°07′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Charles is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Charles that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 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 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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Charles is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Ives, 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 October 20, 1874, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Ives, 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 Q309648, 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 Clara Sipprell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Ives at Wikipedia, charlesives.org, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Ives’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Ives?
- Charles Ives was a Libra: born October 20, 1874, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Charles Ives's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1874 birth.
- What time was Charles Ives 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 Ives's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 20, 1874 birth date.
- What was Charles Ives's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 20, 1874 birth date.
- Where was Charles Ives's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Ives's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
