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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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
US name records start in 1880, 6 years after this birth. In that first year Charles ranked 4th among boys and 520th among girls, with 5,348 American boys and 11 girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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
The record
What sets Charles apart
Kamala Harris (1964) and Elfriede Jelinek (1946) 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.
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. Working below.
Where Charles sits
Six lines
Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Charles Ives
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Danbury 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 Danbury that night
Computed for 41.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Danbury at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 41.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Danbury at all: they sit past the −48.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 76% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet 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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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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 12°29′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 29°19′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°07′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Charles’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Charles’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
More people like Charles
Other composers
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- Arthur Rubinstein1887
- Ernst Toch1887
- Douglas Moore1893
- Walter Piston1894
- Leo Sowerby1895
Born in United States
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- Edwin Carlile LitseyAmerican writer from Kentucky
- Mack SwainAmerican actor, vaudevillian
- Amy Lawrence LowellUS writer
- Susan GlaspellAmerican writer
- Owen DavisAmerican dramatist
More charts like Charles’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Pierre CastelFrench businessman
- Tatjana KimRussian businesswoman, founder of Wildberries
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Born in Dog years
- Babar AzamPakistani cricketer
- Gervonta DavisAmerican boxer (born 1994)
- Frankie DettoriItalian jockey (1970-)
Also born on October 20
- Kamala Harris1964
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Snoop Dogg1971
- Viggo Mortensen1958
- John Krasinski1979
- Dannii Minogue1971
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Chris CornellAmerican musician
- Ali LarterAmerican actress and model
- Jafar PanahiIranian film director
Other Libra Dog charts
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- Maribel VerdúSpanish actress (born 1970)
- Wilford BrimleyAmerican actor and singer
Other Gilded Pioneers
- David LangfordBritish writer
- Russell T DaviesWelsh screenwriter and television producer
- Rebecca RoanhorseAmerican speculative fiction author (1971-)
- Johnny CarsonAmerican talk show host and comedian
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Malcolm XAmerican Black rights activist
- Kylian MbappéFrench association football player
- Mario Vargas LlosaPeruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Charles’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1874. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309648 (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 Clara Sipprell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Ives at Wikipedia, charlesives.org, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Ives.
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.
- 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 was Charles Ives's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Ives's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
