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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes 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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Charles M. Rice was born on August 25, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can'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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles M. Rice's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Charles M. Rice combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles M. Rice, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.7° orb
Charles’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.8° to 3.1° orb
Charles’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareMars3.5° to 3.9° orb
Charles’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.6° orb
Charles’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune4.0° to 4.4° orb
Charles’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
Charles’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.9° to 5.3° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.2° orb
Charles’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 ℞Capricorn 6°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Charles is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 10°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Charles feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio or Libra during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Charles is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Charles is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°40′ (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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.5°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Charles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles M. Rice, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles M. Rice, 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 Q22669757, 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 Bill Branson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles M. Rice at Wikipedia and rockefeller.edu.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Charles M. Rice 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 is Charles M. Rice's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1952 birth date.
- What is Charles M. Rice's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1952 birth date.
- 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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