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Charlie Ross

Charlie Ross (born November 9, 1885, Independence, United States; died 1950), was an American journalist. Ross served as White House Press Secretary. Ross's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.

Charlie Ross’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Charlie Ross’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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

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

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

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 does not do surface. The core of Charlie is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Charlie is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Charlie is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Charlie needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Charlie wants to be loved

Charlie wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Charlie you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Charlie creates

How Charlie makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Charlie creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Charlie is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Charlie channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Charlie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Charlie sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Charlie

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charlie

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Charlie

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charlie

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Charlie

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charlie

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Charlie Ross's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Wood Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Charlie Ross was born on November 9, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Charlie Ross's birth date, November 9, 1885, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Charlie’s chart

Charlie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Charlie Ross, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.4° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 17°32′17°Moon in Sagittarius · 20°59′20°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°39′Venus in Capricorn · 2°37′Mars in Virgo · 0°36′Jupiter in Virgo · 28°56′28°Saturn in Cancer · 8°01′ · retrogradeUranus in Libra · 5°58′Neptune in Taurus · 24°22′ · retrograde24°Pluto in Gemini · 2°24′ · retrograde

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Charlie’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.5° orb

    Charlie’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.5° to 2.1° orb

    Charlie’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.7° to 2.3° orb

    Charlie’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Charlie’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.1° to 3.4° orb

    Charlie’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareUranus2.8° to 3.9° orb

    Charlie’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.2° to 4.2° orb

    Charlie’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb

    Charlie’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

    Charlie’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb

    Charlie’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.8° to 6.0° orb

    Charlie’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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.

  • ChironGemini 15°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Charlie turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresScorpio 29°17′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Charlie is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ErosSagittarius 9°34′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Charlie attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • HygieaTaurus 7°36′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Charlie is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°57′ (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. Charlie 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 orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.0°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.7°

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. 1. Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus6 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Charlie is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Charlie Ross, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Charlie’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yin Wood

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Charlie Ross, 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 Q5085474, 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 Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charlie Ross at Wikipedia.

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 Ross.

Quick answers about Charlie Ross’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charlie Ross?
Charlie Ross was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1885, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
What was Charlie Ross's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1885 birth.
What time was Charlie Ross 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 Charlie Ross's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the November 9, 1885 birth date.
What was Charlie Ross's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 9, 1885 birth date.
Where was Charlie Ross's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charlie Ross's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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