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Charles Nicolle

Charles Nicolle (born September 21, 1866, Rouen, France; died 1936), was a French microbiologist. Nicolle served as professor. Nicolle's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Montyon Science Award.

Charles Nicolle’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Charles Nicolle’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

No US figure exists for 1866 — the SSA series begins 14 years later. Charles opened it at 4th among boys and 520th among girls, 5,348 American boys and 11 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

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

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Charles apart

Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Charles needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Charles needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Charles wants to be loved

Charles wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Charles even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Charles creates

How Charles makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Charles creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Charles is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Charles does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rouen 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 Rouen that night

Computed for 49.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rouen was Deneb, in Cygnus, 84.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.

From 49.4°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −40.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rouen on any night.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Air planets

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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Virgo Sun

Sees the typo from across the room.

Charles Nicolle's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1866, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Charles Nicolle was born on September 21, 1866, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Charles Nicolle's birth date, September 21, 1866, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

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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 11° to 25° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.6° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Virgo · 28°15′☉28°Moon in Aquarius · 18°33′☽18°Mercury in Virgo · 18°41′☿18°Venus in Scorpio · 14°32′♀14°Mars in Cancer · 6°26′♂6°Jupiter in Capricorn · 22°26′♃22°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°42′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 8°09′♅8°Neptune in Aries · 11°47′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Taurus · 14°56′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Charles’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.5° to 2.0° orb

    Charles’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Charles’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.1° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 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 ℞Pisces 20°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 1°27′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 20°46′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 16°24′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Mercury 1.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.1°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 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.

  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 1.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.1°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from September 21, 1866. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233965 (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 Unknown, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Quick answers about Charles Nicolle’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Nicolle?
Charles Nicolle was a Virgo: born September 21, 1866, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Nicolle's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1866 birth.
What was Charles Nicolle's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Nicolle's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Nicolle's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Nicolle's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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