Charles Stross
Charles Stross (born October 18, 1964, Leeds, United Kingdom), aged 61, is a British science fiction writer and blogger. Stross is best known for The Laundry Files. Stross's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Edward E. Smith Memorial Award.
Charles Stross’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Charles Stross’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Charles is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Charles needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Charles and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charles creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Charles is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Charles fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Charles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charles sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Charles Stross's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Charles Stross was born on October 18, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Charles Stross's birth date, October 18, 1964, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Stross' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Charles Stross combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Stross, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Pisces 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.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.1° to 1.3° orb
Charles’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.7° to 2.4° orb
Charles’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.0° to 2.1° orb
Charles’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Charles’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 2.2° orb
Charles’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.5° to 2.6° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Charles’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.8° to 3.3° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.6° orb
Charles’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.2° to 4.9° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
Charles’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Charles absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 4°20′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Charles caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLibra 26°41′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Charles is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 17°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Charles is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 0°55′ (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 opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 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.
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Stross, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from October 18, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Stross, 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 Q345249, 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.
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The same Charles Stross at Wikipedia, antipope.org and X.
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 Stross.
Quick answers about Charles Stross’s chart
- How old is Charles Stross?
- Charles Stross is 61 years old, born October 18, 1964 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Charles Stross?
- Charles Stross is a Libra: born October 18, 1964, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is Charles Stross's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1964 birth.
- What time was Charles Stross 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 is Charles Stross's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 18, 1964 birth date.
- What is Charles Stross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 18, 1964 birth date.
- Where is Charles Stross's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charles Stross's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
