Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (born February 14, 1869, Glencorse, United Kingdom; died 1959), was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist. Wilson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Copley Medal and Royal Medal.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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 earliest American count for Charles is 1880, 11 years on: 4th among boys and 520th among girls, 5,348 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Charles apart
Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Charles, according to the stars
Core essence
Charles is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Charles is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Charles be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Charles creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Charles is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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. 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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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
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The sky over Glencorse that night
Computed for 55.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Glencorse was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 77.6° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Glencorse sits at 55.9°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · 2 unaspected planets · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1869, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeSays less than it knows.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on February 14, 1869, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's birth date, February 14, 1869, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunoppositionMars0.4° to 1.8° orb
Charles’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Charles’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° orb
Charles’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto1.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 2.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 5.7° to 17.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 27°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 22°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 7°51′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 24°33′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 8°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.3°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Charles’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Uranus, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.0°
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Also born on February 14
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Charles’s cards
Computed from February 14, 1869. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q162900 (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.
Portrait by The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 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 Thomson Rees Wilson.
Quick answers about Charles Thomson Rees Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson?
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was an Aquarius: born February 14, 1869, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1869 birth.
- What was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
