Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969, Connecticut, United States), aged 57, is an American author and commentator. Anders is best known for Victories Greater Than Death, The City in the Middle of the Night and Choir Boy. Anders's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Theodore Sturgeon Award and Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Charlie Jane Anders’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Charlie
Charlie Jane Anders’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
The SSA recorded 770 American boys and 24 girls named Charlie in 1969: 268th among boys and 2,712th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Charlie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
2 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Charlie apart
The record Charlie Jane Anders is measured by: Six Months, Three Days, Choir Boy and The City in the Middle of the Night.
Study took Charlie Jane Anders to University of Cambridge.
Charlie Jane Anders was 33 when the work began in 2002.
Jennifer Lopez and Rick Fox shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Six Months, Three Days, Choir Boy and The City in the Middle of the Night
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2022), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2017) and Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2012)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Collection and Locus Award for Best Novelette
- Working from
- 2002
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Charlie, according to the stars
Core essence
Charlie is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Charlie is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Charlie wants to be loved
Charlie wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Charlie like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Charlie creates
How Charlie makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charlie creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Charlie is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Charlie is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Charlie has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Jane Anders
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Connecticut 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 Connecticut that night
Computed for 41.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Connecticut at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 16.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
Connecticut sits at 41.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 77% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Charlie's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Charlie Jane Anders's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 24, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Charlie Jane Anders was born on July 24, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Charlie Jane Anders's birth date, July 24, 1969, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Charlie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Charlie Jane Anders' date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Charlie Jane Anders combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Charlie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Charlie’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.4° orb
Charlie’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileUranus0.3° to 1.2° orb
Charlie’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb
stableSuntrineMars1.6° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.6° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.2° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.3° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 5°17′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 24°43′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 3°02′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.5°
- Eros square Pluto 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
Charlie’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.5°
Born the same day as Charlie
2 other people here were born on July 24, 1969, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Connecticut sits at 41.6°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Charlie
Other writers
- John Scalzi1969
- Samantha Power1970
- Howard Tayler1968
- Selina Tusitala Marsh1971
- Kelly Link1969
- Daniel Abraham1969
Born in United States
- Ken JeongSouth Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
- Matthew PerryAmerican-Canadian actor
- Jon MeachamAmerican journalist and biographer (born 1969)
- Johnathon SchaechAmerican actor (born 1969)
- Josh HollowayAmerican actor
- Christian SlaterAmerican actor and producer (born 1969)
More charts like Charlie’s
Fellow Leo suns
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- Roger FedererSwiss tennis player
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Born in Rooster years
- Erich von StroheimAustrian actor and director
- Jullan KindahlSwedish actress
- Stephen FryBritish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Also born on July 24
- Simón Bolívar1783
- Jennifer Lopez1969
- Nayib Bukele1981
- Anna Paquin1982
- Rose Byrne1979
- Elisabeth Moss1982
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Rashee RiceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Kahlil BensonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Grant DelpitAmerican football player
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Blair KaminAmerican architecture critic
- Karel HusaCzech-born American conductor and composer
- Alex HaleyAmerican biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
- Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.American Marine officier and attorney
Other Gilded Guardians
- Michelle WilliamsAmerican singer and actress
- Wagner MouraBrazilian actor
- ShaboozeyAmerican singer
- JuJu WatkinsAmerican basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Max Delbrückbiophysicist
- Georg WittigGerman chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Charlie’s cards
Computed from July 24, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Charlie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5084448 (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.
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The same Charlie Jane Anders at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Jane Anders.
Quick answers about Charlie Jane Anders’s chart
- How old is Charlie Jane Anders?
- Charlie Jane Anders is 57 years old, born July 24, 1969 in Connecticut, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Charlie Jane Anders?
- Charlie Jane Anders is a Leo: born July 24, 1969, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Charlie Jane Anders's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 24, 1969 birth.
- What is Charlie Jane Anders's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Charlie Jane Anders's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Charlie Jane Anders's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Charlie Jane Anders's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
