Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950, Manhattan, United States; died 2018), was an American journalist. Krauthammer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism and Irving Kristol Award.
Charles Krauthammer’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Krauthammer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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
In 1950, 39,095 American boys and 154 girls were registered Charles — 9th among boys and 693rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, 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
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1987, when Charles Krauthammer was 37.
Charles Krauthammer was taught at Balliol College and McGill University.
Charles Krauthammer was 28 when the work began in 1978.
The record gives small intestine cancer as the cause, and Adas Israel Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from cancer in Georgia (U.S. state), American wheelchair users and Carter administration personnel.
William H. Macy shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Balliol College, McGill University and Harvard Medical School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1987) and Irving Kristol Award (2004)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
- Working from
- 1978
- Cause of death
- small intestine cancer
- Buried at
- Adas Israel Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Charles is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Charles be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Charles creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Charles is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Charles fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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 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
Dedicate a star to Charles Krauthammer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 20% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
- Lived in
- New York City · Montreal
Wikidata records New York City and Montreal as Charles Krauthammer's home, against Manhattan as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charles Krauthammer: 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
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde · 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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Charles Krauthammer's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 13, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Charles Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Charles Krauthammer's birth date, March 13, 1950, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Krauthammer's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Charles Krauthammer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.4° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMarssquareUranus4.5° to 4.8° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.9° to 6.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.6° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.5° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.9° to 7.2° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.9° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.9° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 28°48′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 18°36′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron square Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 2 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.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
Born the same day as Charles
William H. Macy was born on March 13, 1950 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Charles’s cards
Computed from March 13, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1065216 (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 Mary Anne Fackelman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Krauthammer at Wikipedia, charleskrauthammer.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Krauthammer.
Quick answers about Charles Krauthammer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Krauthammer?
- Charles Krauthammer was a Pisces: born March 13, 1950, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles Krauthammer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 13, 1950 birth.
- What was Charles Krauthammer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Krauthammer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles Krauthammer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Krauthammer's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
