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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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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.
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~2,447,135
Americans share it since 1880
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charles K. Kao, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Charles’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.5° to 1.7° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus5.7° to 6.5° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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 ℞Gemini 2°32′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Charles turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°46′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Charles looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°42′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Charles is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 19°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Charles is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Charles guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.9°
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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Charles is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles K. Kao, 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 November 4, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles K. Kao, 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 Q16389, 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 David Dobkin [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles K. Kao at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- 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 time was Charles K. Kao 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 K. Kao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 4, 1933 birth date.
- What was Charles K. Kao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 4, 1933 birth date.
- 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.
