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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975, Benoni, South Africa), aged 51, is a South African and American actress. Notable films include Prometheus, Mad Max: Fury Road and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Theron's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and Saturn Award for Best Actress.

Charlize Theron’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Charlize Theron’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Charlize in the U.S.?

#2658

US rank in 2025

~5,682

Americans share it since 1998

2004

its peak year

US records hold Charlize from 1998 onward, though not for 1975 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2004 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charlize’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

8

Soul Urge · achievement

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Charlize’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1975, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Charlize apart

The Academy Award for Best Actress came in 2004, when Charlize Theron was 29.

Charlize Theron was 20 when the work began in 1995.

The family line: born to Charles Theron and raised 2 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Joffrey Ballet School alumni, American film producers and GLAAD Vanguard Award.

Abbie Cornish (1982) and David Duchovny (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Academy Award for Best Actress (2004), Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2008) and GLAAD Vanguard Award (2006)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actress
Working from
1995
Citizenship
United States and South Africa
Languages
English and Afrikaans
Wikipedia editions
118

What the chart says

Charlize, according to the stars

Core essence

Charlize is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Charlize 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Charlize needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Charlize needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Charlize wants to be loved

Charlize wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Charlize and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Charlize creates

How Charlize makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Charlize creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Charlize is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Charlize 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 Charlize leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Charlize 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 Charlize's birth date. Working below.

Where Charlize sits

Six lines

Charlize’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Charlize

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charlize

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Charlize

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charlize

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Charlize

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charlize

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charlize Theron

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Benoni 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 Benoni that night

Computed for 26.19°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Kaus Media stood nearest the zenith over Benoni at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Sagittarius.

Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 67 catalog stars above the horizon.

Benoni sits at 26.2°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Benoni, South Africa
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Charlize Theron's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Charlize Theron: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Charlize's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · Venus retrograde

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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Charlize Theron in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Charlize Theron's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Charlize Theron was born on August 7, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Charlize Theron's birth date, August 7, 1975, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Charlize’s chart

Charlize’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.1° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.8° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.9° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Leo · 14°17′☉14°Moon in Leo · 13°09′☽13°Mercury in Leo · 20°46′☿20°Venus in Virgo · 11°41′ · retrograde♀℞11°Mars in Taurus · 25°19′♂25°Jupiter in Aries · 24°37′♃24°Saturn in Cancer · 25°25′♄25°Uranus in Libra · 28°47′♅28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 9°04′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Libra · 7°11′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Charlize’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Charlize’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

    Charlize’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.9° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

Charlize’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 4°03′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 5°07′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 25°23′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.7°

Charlize’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Charlize’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°

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Charlize’s cards

Computed from August 7, 1975. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charlize’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80046 (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 PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Charlize Theron’s chart

How old is Charlize Theron?
Charlize Theron is 51 years old, born August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa.
What zodiac sign is Charlize Theron?
Charlize Theron is a Leo: born August 7, 1975, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Charlize Theron's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1975 birth.
How tall is Charlize Theron?
Charlize Theron is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Charlize Theron's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Charlize Theron's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Charlize Theron's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Charlize Theron's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 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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