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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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.
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
In 1935, 29,983 American boys and 149 girls were registered Charles — 6th among boys and 528th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Charles apart
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel came in 1993, when Charles Sheffield was 58.
The schooling ran through St John's College.
Charles Sheffield was 43 when the work began in 1978.
The family line: married Nancy Kress and Linda Zall.
On Wikipedia the categories read Presidents of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, English science writers and Deaths from brain cancer in the United States.
George Orwell (1903) and George Michael (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St John's College
- Awards
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1993), Nebula Award for Best Novelette (1994) and Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1994)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Anthology and Locus Award for Best Collection
- Working from
- 1978
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
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. Working below.
Where Charles sits
Six lines
Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Charles Sheffield
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingston upon Hull 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 Kingston upon Hull that night
Computed for 53.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kingston upon Hull was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 84.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 53.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 26% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kingston upon Hull, Kingdom of England
The death is recorded at Rockville, Montgomery County in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charles Sheffield: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.8° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 12°12′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 18°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 7°35′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°10′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Charles’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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
Computed from June 25, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
22 · Master Builder☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q943997 (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.
The same Charles Sheffield at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Charles Sheffield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Sheffield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
