Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938, Manhattan, United States; died 2020), was an American composer. Wuorinen is best remembered for Josquiniana, Time's Encomium and Dante Trilogie. Wuorinen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Charles Wuorinen’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Charles
Charles Wuorinen’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1938, Charles came 6th among boys and 571st among girls, carried by 31,151 American boys and 144 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets Charles apart
Johnny Depp (1963) and Natalie Portman (1981) 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 conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Charles needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Charles feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Charles needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charles creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Charles is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Charles is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Charles does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 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.
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 Wuorinen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 92% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Charles's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Charles Wuorinen's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 9, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Charles Wuorinen was born on June 9, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Charles Wuorinen's birth date, June 9, 1938, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Charles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charles Wuorinen's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Charles Wuorinen combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Charles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Scorpio 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Charles’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Charles’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.1° to 2.0° orb
Charles’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 3.2° to 15.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Charles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 1°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°45′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 23°39′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°57′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.0°
Charles’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.5°
More people like Charles
Other composers
- Smokey Robinson1940
- Quincy Jones1933
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich1939
- Richard Wernick1934
- Edward Kleban1939
- Bernard Rands1934
Born in United States
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- Linda LavinAmerican actress and singer
- Natalie WoodAmerican actress
- Warren L. LerudeAmerican journalist and professor of journalism
- Hampton FancherAmerican actor and director
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More charts like Charles’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Im Yoon-ahSouth Korean singer and actress
- Dimash QudaibergenKazakh singer
- Amanda LearFrench singer, actress, television presenter
Born in Tiger years
- Garth BrooksAmerican country music singer and songwriter
- Manuel NeuerGerman association football player (born 1986)
- Fernando MusleraUruguayan footballer
Also born on June 9
- Johnny Depp1963
- Natalie Portman1981
- Michael J. Fox1961
- Zack Bia1996
- Matt Bellamy1978
- Laurie Hernandez2000
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Margaret CoitAmerican historian
- Mary JordanAmerican journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Richard RodgersAmerican composer of songs and Broadway musicals
Other Gemini Tiger charts
- Viktor GyökeresSwedish footballer (born 1998)
- DaveBritish rapper
- Markelle FultzAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Matyáš NovákCzech musician
Other Tidal Seekers
- Tari EasonAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Amen ThompsonAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Bobby PortisAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Karlo MatkovićBosnian basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Kendrick BourneAmerican football wide receiver
- Cole ChristiansenAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Zonovan KnightAmerican football player (born 2001)
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Charles’s cards
Computed from June 9, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q961861 (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 User:Hstokar, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Wuorinen 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 Wuorinen.
Quick answers about Charles Wuorinen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charles Wuorinen?
- Charles Wuorinen was a Gemini: born June 9, 1938, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Charles Wuorinen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 9, 1938 birth.
- What was Charles Wuorinen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charles Wuorinen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charles Wuorinen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charles Wuorinen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
