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Charles M. Rice

Charles M. Rice (born August 25, 1952, Sacramento, United States), aged 74, is an American virologist. Rice's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and Robert Koch Prize.

Charles M. Rice’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Charles

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Charles M. Rice’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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

Charles ranked 9th among boys and 831st among girls in 1952, the year of this birth, with 38,866 American boys and 121 girls on the register.

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

11

Soul Urge · insight

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

5 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Charles apart

Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) 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.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Charles and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Charles creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Charles is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Charles runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Charles

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charles

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

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.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charles M. Rice

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sacramento on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Charles’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 85.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Sacramento that night

Computed for 38.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Sacramento at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sacramento on any night.

The Moon, 27% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all

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.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Charles M. Rice's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Charles M. Rice was born on August 25, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Charles M. Rice's birth date, August 25, 1952, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Virgo · 2°29′☉2°Moon in Libra · 29°55′☽29°Mercury in Leo · 15°31′☿15°Venus in Virgo · 19°28′♀19°Mars in Scorpio · 28°49′♂28°Jupiter in Taurus · 20°37′♃20°Saturn in Libra · 12°34′♄12°Uranus in Cancer · 17°02′♅17°Neptune in Libra · 19°45′♆19°Pluto in Leo · 21°34′♇21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.6° to 1.7° orb

    Charles’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.9° orb

    Charles’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.8° to 3.0° orb

    Charles’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune2.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars3.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune4.0° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.9° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 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 ℞Capricorn 6°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 10°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio or Libra during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.2°
  • Hygiea opposition Mars 2.5°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.9°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from August 25, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q22669757 (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 Bill Branson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charles M. Rice at Wikipedia and rockefeller.edu.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles M. Rice.

Quick answers about Charles M. Rice’s chart

How old is Charles M. Rice?
Charles M. Rice is 74 years old, born August 25, 1952 in Sacramento, United States.
What zodiac sign is Charles M. Rice?
Charles M. Rice is a Virgo: born August 25, 1952, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Charles M. Rice's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1952 birth.
What is Charles M. Rice's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Charles M. Rice's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Charles M. Rice's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Charles M. Rice's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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