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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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.
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
Charles ranked 6th among boys and 571st among girls in 1938, the year of this birth, with 31,151 American boys and 144 girls on the register.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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
Charles Simic took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972, at 34.
Training came by way of Oak Park and River Forest High School and New York University.
Wikipedia's editors put Charles Simic under Serbian male poets, Deaths from dementia in New Hampshire and Military personnel from New Hampshire.
Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Oak Park and River Forest High School and New York University
- Awards
- Horst Bienek Award for Poetry (2003), Robert Frost Medal (2011) and MacArthur Fellows Program (1984)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Citizenship
- United States and Serbia
- Languages
- French, English and Serbian
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
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. Working below.
Where Charles sits
Six lines
Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Simic
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Belgrade 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 Belgrade that night
Computed for 44.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Belgrade at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 44.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 80% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Belgrade, Serbia
The death is recorded at Dover, Strafford County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charles Simic: 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
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Virgo 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
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
stableMercurysquarePluto2.0° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 28°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°10′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 1°24′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°44′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Charles’s dominant planets
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
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 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°
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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
Computed from May 9, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q722555 (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 Simic at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Charles Simic's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Simic's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
