Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (born September 10, 1948, Budapest, Hungary), aged 78, is a Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948).
Charles Simonyi’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Simonyi’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
The SSA recorded 38,676 American boys and 150 girls named Charles in 1948: 9th among boys and 679th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
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 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary came in 2007, when Charles Simonyi was 59.
The schooling ran through University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.
The family line: born to Károly Simonyi.
Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2007) and Great Immigrants Award (2007)
- Citizenship
- Hungary and United States
- Languages
- English and Hungarian
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Charles is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Charles needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Charles creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Charles runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 Simonyi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Budapest 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 Budapest that night
Computed for 47.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Budapest was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 87.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 47.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −42.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Budapest on any night.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 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 Simonyi at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Charles Simonyi's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Charles Simonyi was born on September 10, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Charles Simonyi's birth date, September 10, 1948, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Simonyi's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Charles Simonyi combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Sagittarius 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.4° orb
Charles’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 2.5° orb
Charles’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
Charles’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.5° to 2.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.5° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.8° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 3.3° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 20°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 28°23′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 0°39′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°22′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 5°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.8°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
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.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
More people like Charles
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- Edward TellerHungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
- George SorosHungarian-American investor and philanthropist
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
More charts like Charles’s
Fellow Virgo suns
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- JungkookSouth Korean singer
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Born in Rat years
- Mary JordanAmerican journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Mark Antony De Wolfe HoweAmerican editor and biographer
- John L. GauntAmerican photographer
Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Colin Firth1960
- Karl Lagerfeld1933
- Ryan Phillippe1974
- Sam Kerr1993
- Elsa Schiaparelli1890
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Carl Van DorenAmerican biographer
- William SaroyanArmenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
- Vladimir Kara-MurzaRussian politician and journalist (born 1981)
Other Virgo Rat charts
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- Mikal BridgesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Dejounte MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Sommer RayAmerican fitness model
Other Steadfast Explorers
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- Bert HölldoblerGerman biologist
- Moira MagnesonAmerican poet
- Henry E. PilkentonAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Sean SpicerAmerican political strategist and former White House Press Secretary and Communications Director for President Donald Trump
- Maia ShibutaniAmerican ice dancer
- Sigourney WeaverAmerican actress (born 1949)
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Charles’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49819 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charles Simonyi.
Quick answers about Charles Simonyi’s chart
- How old is Charles Simonyi?
- Charles Simonyi is 78 years old, born September 10, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary.
- What zodiac sign is Charles Simonyi?
- Charles Simonyi is a Virgo: born September 10, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Charles Simonyi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1948 birth.
- What is Charles Simonyi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Charles Simonyi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Charles Simonyi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charles Simonyi's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
