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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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
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
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
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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.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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 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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charles J. Pedersen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Cancer 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.
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
Charles’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.4° to 4.1° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto4.6° orb
Charles’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineNeptune4.8° to 6.0° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.9° to 6.2° orb
Charles’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°37′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Charles is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°39′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Charles is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 24°16′ (moves 0.88° 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.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Charles is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Charles is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 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°
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. ♀ 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
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles J. Pedersen, 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 3, 1904, 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
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
No birth time is on public record for Charles J. Pedersen, 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 Q244998, 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Charles J. Pedersen 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 J. Pedersen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 3, 1904 birth date.
- What was Charles J. Pedersen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 3, 1904 birth date.
- 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.
