Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao (born November 4, 1933, Shanghai, China; died 2018), was a Hong Kong-British-American physicist. Kao's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Fellow and Grand Bauhinia Medal.
Charles K. Kao’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles K. Kao’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, 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
Of the names registered in 1933, Charles came 6th among boys and 447th among girls, carried by 28,991 American boys and 209 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
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
22 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Charles apart
Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) 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 does not do surface. The core of Charles is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Charles is earned slowly and never given lightly.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Charles builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Charles is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Charles has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shanghai 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 Shanghai that night
Computed for 31.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Shanghai at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 2.8° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 31.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 95% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Charles K. Kao at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Charles K. Kao's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Charles K. Kao was born on November 4, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Charles K. Kao's birth date, November 4, 1933, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles K. Kao's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles K. Kao combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableUranussquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Charles’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.4° orb
Charles’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.5° to 1.7° orb
stableVenustrineUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.7° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.2° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 3.7° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.9° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMarssquareNeptuneorb from 6.4° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 2°32′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°46′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°42′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 19°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.9°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.5°
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Charles’s cards
Computed from November 4, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16389 (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 David Dobkin [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles K. Kao at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles K. Kao.
Quick answers about Charles K. Kao’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles K. Kao?
- Charles K. Kao was a Scorpio: born November 4, 1933, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles K. Kao's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1933 birth.
- What was Charles K. Kao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles K. Kao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles K. Kao's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles K. Kao's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
