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Charles Kelley

Charles Kelley (born September 11, 1981, Augusta, United States), aged 45, is an American musician.

Charles Kelley’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Charles Kelley’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

3 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Charles apart

Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Charles is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Charles needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Charles needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Charles gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charles creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Charles is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Charles fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Charles sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Charles

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charles

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charles

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Charles Kelley's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Charles Kelley was born on September 11, 1981, which falls in a Metal 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 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Charles Kelley's birth date, September 11, 1981, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Charles Kelley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.5° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.8° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Virgo · 18°49′☉18°Moon in Aquarius · 17°21′☽17°Mercury in Libra · 12°34′☿12°Venus in Libra · 28°30′♀28°Mars in Leo · 6°04′♂6°Jupiter in Libra · 13°49′♃13°Saturn in Libra · 9°52′♄9°Uranus in Scorpio · 26°40′♅26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°06′♆22°Pluto in Libra · 22°54′♇22°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb

    Charles’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

    Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb

    Charles’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

    Charles’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.6° to 4.1° orb

    Charles’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.0° orb

    Charles’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.0° to 6.2° orb

    Charles’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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 ℞Taurus 22°45′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Charles building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 20°47′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Charles caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 19°28′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Charles wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 25°03′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Charles is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Charles is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • Eros trine Sun 0.6°
  • Ceres square Neptune 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 2.0°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.2°

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. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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 quintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Kelley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Charles’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Empress

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Charles Kelley, 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 Q1321179, 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 zqvol, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles Kelley at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Charles Kelley.

Quick answers about Charles Kelley’s chart

How old is Charles Kelley?
Charles Kelley is 45 years old, born September 11, 1981 in Augusta, United States.
What zodiac sign is Charles Kelley?
Charles Kelley is a Virgo: born September 11, 1981, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
What is Charles Kelley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1981 birth.
What time was Charles Kelley 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 is Charles Kelley's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 11, 1981 birth date.
What is Charles Kelley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 11, 1981 birth date.
Where is Charles Kelley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Charles Kelley's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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