Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton (born July 1, 1899, Scarborough, United Kingdom; died 1962), was a British-American actor. Laughton is best remembered for The Night of the Hunter. Laughton's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Charles Laughton’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Charles Laughton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~2,447,135
Americans share it since 1880
1947
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
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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 the room before entering it. The core of Charles is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Charles, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Charles like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charles creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Charles is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Charles channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Charles Laughton's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Charles Laughton was born on July 1, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Charles Laughton's birth date, July 1, 1899, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Laughton's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Charles Laughton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Laughton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Charles’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.9° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.2° to 3.9° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.3° to 3.5° orb
Charles’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Charles’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareUranus3.7° to 4.3° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.3° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 7.0° orb
Charles’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Charles’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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 ℞Sagittarius 7°55′ (moves 0.05° 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.
⚳ CeresLibra 28°44′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Charles is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 17°37′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Charles loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°36′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Charles is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Charles is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Chiron square Mars 0.8°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.6°
- Hygiea square Venus 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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Charles is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Laughton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Charles’s family here
One relative of Charles Laughton also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from July 1, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Laughton, 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 Q55264, 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 Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Laughton 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 Laughton.
Quick answers about Charles Laughton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Laughton?
- Charles Laughton was a Cancer: born July 1, 1899, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Charles Laughton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1899 birth.
- What time was Charles Laughton 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.
- How tall was Charles Laughton?
- Charles Laughton was 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Charles Laughton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 1, 1899 birth date.
- What was Charles Laughton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 1, 1899 birth date.
- Where was Charles Laughton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Laughton's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
