Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (born April 16, 1889, Walworth, United Kingdom; died 1977), was an English actor and filmmaker. Chaplin's honours include BAFTA Fellowship, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Charlie Chaplin’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Charlie
Charlie Chaplin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Charlie in the U.S.?
#133
US rank in 2025
~224,639
Americans share it since 1880
1919
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1889, Charlie came 29th among boys and 807th among girls, carried by 685 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charlie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Charlie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The record
What sets Charlie apart
Charlie Chaplin took the Erasmus Prize in 1965, at 76.
The classrooms behind this chart: Cuckoo Schools and Black-Foxe Military Institute.
The working life starts in 1899, at 10.
Cause of death is recorded as cerebral hemorrhage; the grave is at cemetery of Corsier-sur-Vevey.
Charlie Chaplin was born to Hannah Chaplin and Charles Chaplin Sr., married Lita Grey and Paulette Goddard and raised 5 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Charlie Chaplin: British slapstick comedians, Chaplin family and Artists awarded knighthoods.
Selena (1971) and Akon (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cuckoo Schools and Black-Foxe Military Institute
- Awards
- Golden Lion (1972), Academy Honorary Award (1972) and BAFTA Fellowship (1976)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and BAFTA Fellowship
- Working from
- 1899
- Cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Buried at
- cemetery of Corsier-sur-Vevey
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 262
What the chart says
Charlie, according to the stars
Core essence
Charlie leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Charlie is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Charlie wants to be loved
Charlie wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Charlie is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Charlie creates
How Charlie makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Charlie 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: Charlie is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Charlie is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Charlie leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Charlie is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Charlie's birth date. Working below.
Where Charlie sits
Six lines
Charlie’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Charlie Chaplin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Walworth 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 Walworth that night
Computed for 51.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Walworth was Merak, in Ursa Major, 84.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Walworth sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Walworth on any night.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Walworth, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Beverly Hills
Wikidata records Beverly Hills as Charlie Chaplin's home, against Walworth as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Corsier-sur-Vevey, Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in 1977.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charlie Chaplin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Charlie's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
No Water planets · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Charlie Chaplin's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Charlie Chaplin's birth date, April 16, 1889, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Charlie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charlie Chaplin's date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Charlie Chaplin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Charlie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Libra or 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
stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Charlie’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.5° to 3.5° orb
Charlie’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.8° to 4.7° orb
Charlie’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 1.0° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.6° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 1.8° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Charlie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 27°43′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°17′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°03′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.1°
- Eros trine Venus 0.9°
- Ceres square Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°
- Eros square Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 3.0°
Charlie’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Charlie’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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.5°
Charlie’s family here
One relative of Charlie Chaplin also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Charlie
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- Herbie Hancock1940
Born in United Kingdom
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- Lynn FontanneBritish actress
- Claude RainsBritish actor
- Leo G. CarrollBritish actor
- Edgar Douglas AdrianEnglish electrophysiologist
- Archibald HillEnglish physiologist and biophysicist
More charts like Charlie’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Cam LewisAmerican football cornerback
- Jaylon JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Luke McCaffreyAmerican football player (born 2001)
Born in Ox years
- Zach CollinsAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- John CollinsAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Taj GibsonAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- K. MichelleAmerican singer
- Vice GandaFilipino entertainer
- Black CoffeeSouth African DJ and record producer
Other Aries Ox charts
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- Saad LamjarredMoroccan singer and actor
- Keira KnightleyBritish actress
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Other Tidal Strategists
- Tenley MolzahnAmerican dancer
- Scottie PippenAmerican basketball player (born 1965)
- Alexa Ray JoelAmerican singer
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Charlie’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charlie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q882 (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 Strauss-Peyton Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Charlie Chaplin at Wikipedia, charliechaplin.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charlie Chaplin.
Quick answers about Charlie Chaplin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Charlie Chaplin?
- Charlie Chaplin was an Aries: born April 16, 1889, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Charlie Chaplin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1889 birth.
- How tall was Charlie Chaplin?
- Charlie Chaplin was 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Charlie Chaplin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Charlie Chaplin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Charlie Chaplin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Charlie Chaplin's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
