Charles Vanel
Charles Vanel (born August 21, 1892, Rennes, France; died 1989), was a French actor and director. Vanel's honours include Order of the Francisque and Silver Shell for Best Actor.
Charles Vanel’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Charles Vanel’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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#48
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
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Charles is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Charles needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Charles wants to be loved
Charles wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Charles gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Charles creates
How Charles makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Charles creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Charles goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Charles Vanel in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Charles Vanel's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Charles Vanel was born on August 21, 1892, which falls in a Water 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 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Charles Vanel's birth date, August 21, 1892, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Vanel's date-only chart is Neptune conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Charles Vanel combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Charles Vanel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Leo 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.
stableMarstrinePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.4° orb
Charles’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 4.2° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb
Charles’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunsextileUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus5.4° to 5.6° orb
Charles’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.9° orb
Charles’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 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.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Charles performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°33′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Charles is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 8°16′ (moves 0.78° 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 24°34′ (moves 0.32° 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 LilithScorpio 4°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Charles is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros trine Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres square Sun 1.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.5°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.9°
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. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Charles is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Vanel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from August 21, 1892, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Charles Vanel, 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 Q965918, 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.
Portrait by Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Vanel at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Vanel.
Quick answers about Charles Vanel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Vanel?
- Charles Vanel was a Leo: born August 21, 1892, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- What was Charles Vanel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1892 birth.
- What time was Charles Vanel 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 Vanel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 21, 1892 birth date.
- What was Charles Vanel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 21, 1892 birth date.
- Where was Charles Vanel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Vanel's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
