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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Charles
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.
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 4,319 American boys and 29 girls named Charles in 1892: 5th among boys and 505th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
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 record
What sets Charles apart
Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) 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 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. Working below.
Where Charles sits
Six lines
Charles’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Vanel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rennes 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 Rennes that night
Computed for 48.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rennes was Eltanin, in Draco, 80.9° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Rennes sits at 48.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rennes on any night.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · Mars retrograde · 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.
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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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Leo 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
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
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°33′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 8°16′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 24°34′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Charles’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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Charles’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q965918 (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 Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Vanel at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 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.
- 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 was Charles Vanel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Vanel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
