Charles Simic
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938, Belgrade, Serbia; died 2023), was a Serbian born American poet. Simic's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, MacArthur Fellows Program and Wallace Stevens Award.
Charles Simic’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Charles Simic’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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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
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Charles is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Charles needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Charles like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Charles creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Charles is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Charles scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Charles Simic at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Charles Simic's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Charles Simic's birth date, May 9, 1938, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Simic's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Charles Simic combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Simic, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Virgo 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.
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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.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.5° to 1.1° orb
Charles’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.8° to 1.9° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.9° to 2.4° orb
Charles’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.0° to 2.3° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
Charles’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
Charles’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
Charles’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.8° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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 28°23′ (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.
⚳ CeresAries 22°10′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Charles looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosVirgo 1°24′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Charles is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°44′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Charles is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Charles is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.6°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Charles is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Simic, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from May 9, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Simic, 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 Q722555, 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 Simic at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 Simic.
Quick answers about Charles Simic’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Simic?
- Charles Simic was a Taurus: born May 9, 1938, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- What was Charles Simic's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1938 birth.
- What time was Charles Simic 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 Simic's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1938 birth date.
- What was Charles Simic's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1938 birth date.
- Where was Charles Simic's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Simic's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
