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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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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
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Charles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charles Wuorinen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Scorpio 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.
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
Charles’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.8° to 2.7° orb
Charles’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
Charles’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.8° to 3.9° orb
Charles’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
Charles’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 1°08′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Charles is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°45′ (moves 0.36° 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.
♡ ErosVirgo 23°39′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Charles is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°57′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Charles is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Charles is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.0°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Charles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charles Wuorinen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Charles’s cards
Every card is computed from June 9, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charles Wuorinen, 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 Q961861, 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 User:Hstokar, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charles Wuorinen 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- 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 time was Charles Wuorinen 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 Wuorinen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the June 9, 1938 birth date.
- What was Charles Wuorinen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 9, 1938 birth date.
- 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.
