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Charles Scott Sherrington

Charles Scott Sherrington (born November 27, 1857, London, United Kingdom; died 1952), was an English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient. Sherrington played for Ipswich Town F.C.. Sherrington's honours include Order of Merit, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Copley Medal.

Charles Scott Sherrington’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Charles Scott Sherrington’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth 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 name records start in 1880, 23 years after this birth. In that first year Charles ranked 4th among boys and 520th among girls, with 5,348 American boys and 11 girls registered.

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

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1).

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 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet

The record

What sets Charles apart

Bruce Lee (1940) and Jimi Hendrix (1942) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Charles is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Charles runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Charles needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Charles fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charles

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Ruchbah of Cassiopeia, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Pluto · Yod onto Jupiter · Five planets retrograde

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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Charles Scott Sherrington in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Charles Scott Sherrington's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 27, 1857, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Charles Scott Sherrington was born on November 27, 1857, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Charles Scott Sherrington's birth date, November 27, 1857, 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 3° to 17° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.3° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.6° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 4.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 5°15′☉5°Moon in Aries · 10°03′☽10°Mercury in Sagittarius · 9°50′☿9°Venus in Scorpio · 13°00′♀12°Mars in Libra · 6°33′♂6°Jupiter in Taurus · 7°53′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Cancer · 28°04′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Taurus · 26°52′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Pisces · 19°54′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Taurus · 5°06′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.6° orb

    Charles’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.1° to 1.5° orb

    Charles’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.2° orb

    Charles’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.4° to 5.8° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 4.9° to 19.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenustrineNeptuneorb from 6.3° to 7.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineSaturnorb from 6.7° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 7°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 14°10′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 6°26′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 26°25′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.2°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.3°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.2°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.3°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.5°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Pluto · Sun, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Mars, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.9°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from November 27, 1857. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213504 (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 No known restrictions on publication. Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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

Quick answers about Charles Scott Sherrington’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charles Scott Sherrington?
Charles Scott Sherrington was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1857, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Charles Scott Sherrington's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1857 birth.
What was Charles Scott Sherrington's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Charles Scott Sherrington's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charles Scott Sherrington's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charles Scott Sherrington's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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