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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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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
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
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charles sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charles Krauthammer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or 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.
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.
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
Charles’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.0° orb
Charles’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb
Charles’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.6° orb
Charles’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.5° to 6.8° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.9° to 7.2° orb
Charles’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Charles building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°43′ (moves 0.18° 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.
♡ ErosAries 28°48′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Charles is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 18°36′ (moves 0.20° 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 LilithTaurus 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Charles is read as immovable on those points.
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 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°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Charles is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Krauthammer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Charles
William H. Macy was born on March 13, 1950 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from March 13, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles Krauthammer, 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 Q1065216, 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 Mary Anne Fackelman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Krauthammer at Wikipedia, charleskrauthammer.com and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Tiger.
- 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 time was Charles Krauthammer 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 Krauthammer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the March 13, 1950 birth date.
- What was Charles Krauthammer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 13, 1950 birth date.
- 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.
