Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield (born June 25, 1935, Kingston upon Hull, England; died 2002), was a British mathematician, physicist and writer. Sheffield's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novelette, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Charles Sheffield’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Pig, with 
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Charles Sheffield’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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#48
US rank in 2025
~2,447,135
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
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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 out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Charles openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charles creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Charles is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charles sits
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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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Charles Sheffield's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Charles Sheffield was born on June 25, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Charles Sheffield's birth date, June 25, 1935, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Sheffield's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Charles Sheffield combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Sheffield, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableSunsextileUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
Charles’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.9° orb
Charles’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.6° orb
Charles’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.6° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
Charles’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.8° to 6.3° orb
Charles’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.6° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.5° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 12°12′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Charles turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLeo 18°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Charles is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosPisces 7°35′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Charles is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°10′ (moves 0.25° 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 LilithVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Charles exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Chiron square Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.9°
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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Charles is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Sheffield, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Charles’s family here
One relative of Charles Sheffield also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Charles’s cards
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☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Sheffield, 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 Q943997, 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.
The same Charles Sheffield at Wikipedia.
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 Sheffield.
Quick answers about Charles Sheffield’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Sheffield?
- Charles Sheffield was a Cancer: born June 25, 1935, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig.
- What was Charles Sheffield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1935 birth.
- What time was Charles Sheffield 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 was Charles Sheffield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the June 25, 1935 birth date.
- What was Charles Sheffield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 25, 1935 birth date.
- Where was Charles Sheffield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Sheffield's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
