Charles J. Pedersen
Charles J. Pedersen (born October 3, 1904, Busan, South Korea; died 1989), was an American organic chemist. Pedersen's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Lavoisier Medal for Lifetime Technical Achievement.
Charles J. Pedersen’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles J. Pedersen’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1904, Charles came 6th among boys and 713th among girls, carried by 3,406 American boys and 24 girls.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Charles apart
Charles J. Pedersen took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, at 83.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Dayton and Saint Joseph College, Yokohama.
Cause of death is recorded as multiple myeloma; the grave is at East View Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Charles J. Pedersen: University of Dayton alumni, Korean Empire people and People from Busan.
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) and Gwen Stefani (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Dayton, Saint Joseph College, Yokohama and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987) and Lavoisier Medal for Lifetime Technical Achievement (1991)
- Cause of death
- multiple myeloma
- Buried at
- East View Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Japan and United States
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
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 is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Charles needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Charles even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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.
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 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.
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 J. Pedersen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Busan 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 Busan that night
Computed for 35.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Busan was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 74.9° up.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 35.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Busan at all: they sit past the −54.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 40% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Busan, South Korea
The death is recorded at Salem, Salem County in 1989.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charles J. Pedersen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Charles J. Pedersen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 3, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Charles J. Pedersen was born on October 3, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Charles J. Pedersen's birth date, October 3, 1904, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles J. Pedersen's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Charles J. Pedersen combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Cancer 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
stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb
Charles’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto4.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.8° to 6.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.9° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°37′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°39′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°16′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros square Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.5°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
- Eros square Pluto 2.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.6°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Charles’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.2°
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Charles’s cards
Computed from October 3, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q244998 (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.
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Quick answers about Charles J. Pedersen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles J. Pedersen?
- Charles J. Pedersen was a Libra: born October 3, 1904, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles J. Pedersen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 3, 1904 birth.
- What was Charles J. Pedersen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles J. Pedersen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles J. Pedersen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles J. Pedersen's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
