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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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.
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
The SSA recorded 3,147 American boys and 23 girls named Charles in 1899: 5th among boys and 646th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
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 record
What sets Charles apart
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) 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 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. 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 Laughton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Scarborough 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 Scarborough that night
Computed for 54.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Scarborough at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Scarborough sits at 54.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −35.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Scarborough on any night.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon down and 32% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · A leaning bowl · 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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 7.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 28°44′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 17°37′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°36′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Charles’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
Charles’s family here
One relative of Charles Laughton also has a chart on AsterNym.
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More charts like Charles’s
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
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- Tate McRae2003
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Other Cancer Pig charts
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Other Gilded Strategists
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- Tommy TrembleAmerican football tight end
- Shaun DolacAmerican football player (born 2001)
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Charles’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55264 (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 Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Laughton at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Charles Laughton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
