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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.How compatible are you with Charlie Chaplin?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Charlie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Charlie sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Walworth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Charlie Chaplin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Libra or 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.
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
Charlie’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.4° to 5.4° orb
Charlie’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
Charlie’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.5° orb
Charlie’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.5° orb
Charlie’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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 6°36′ (moves 0.05° 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. Charlie is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 27°43′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Charlie is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°17′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Charlie is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°03′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Charlie is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Charlie that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Charlie’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Charlie is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Charlie’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charlie Chaplin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Charlie’s family here
One relative of Charlie Chaplin also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Charlie’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1889, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Charlie Chaplin, 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
Charlie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q882, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
- 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.
- What time was Charlie Chaplin 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.
- 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 from the April 16, 1889 birth date.
- What was Charlie Chaplin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1889 birth date.
- 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.
