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Charles Wright

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935, Pickwick Dam, United States), aged 91, is an American writer; University of Virginia professor (born 1935). Wright's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.

Charles Wright’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Charles Wright’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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

Charles ranked 6th among boys and 528th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 29,983 American boys and 149 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charles’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Lilac · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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

Charles Wright took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, at 40.

The classrooms behind this chart: Christ School.

Wikipedia's editors put Charles Wright under Christ School (North Carolina) alumni, Poets from Tennessee and People from Hardin County, Tennessee.

Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Christ School
Awards
Bollingen Prize (2013), National Book Award (1983) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1975)
Nominated for
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
13

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.

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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Charles creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Charles is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Charles is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Charles

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charles

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Charles

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charles

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Charles

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charles

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charles Wright

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pickwick Dam on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Charles’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 22.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pickwick Dam that night

Computed for 35.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pickwick Dam was Vega, in Lyra, 85.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.

From 35.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pickwick Dam on any night.

Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon down and 8% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Charles's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · Only two elements · Venus 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.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Charles Wright's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Charles Wright was born on August 25, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Charles Wright's birth date, August 25, 1935, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Charles’s chart

Charles’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.8° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Virgo · 1°33′☉1°Moon in Cancer · 24°58′☽24°Mercury in Virgo · 15°59′☿15°Venus in Virgo · 21°38′ · retrograde♀℞21°Mars in Scorpio · 15°48′♂15°Jupiter in Scorpio · 16°18′♃16°Saturn in Pisces · 7°15′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Taurus · 5°26′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Virgo · 13°50′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 26°35′♇26°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Charles’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Charles’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 7.7° orb

    Charles’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 0.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.

Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 15°49′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 15°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 25°42′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.0°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.0°

Charles’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Charles’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°

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Charles’s cards

Computed from August 25, 1935. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2960465 (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.

The same Charles Wright 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 Wright.

Quick answers about Charles Wright’s chart

How old is Charles Wright?
Charles Wright is 91 years old, born August 25, 1935 in Pickwick Dam, United States.
What zodiac sign is Charles Wright?
Charles Wright is a Virgo: born August 25, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Charles Wright's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1935 birth.
What is Charles Wright's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Charles Wright's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Charles Wright's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Charles Wright's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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