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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1923, Evanston, United States; died 2008), was an American actor. Heston served as President of SAG. Heston's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Charlton Heston’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Charlton Heston’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#5902

US rank in 2025

~3,535

Americans share it since 1888

1971

its peak year

The SSA recorded 21 American boys named Charlton in 1923: 1,704th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Charlton’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Charlton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Charlton apart

Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Charlton, according to the stars

Core essence

Charlton makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Charlton is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Charlton wants to be loved

Charlton wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Charlton gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Charlton creates

How Charlton makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Charlton 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: Charlton is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Charlton is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Charlton 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 Charlton's birth date. Working below.

Where Charlton sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Charlton

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Charlton

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

PrivateExpressive
Charlton

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Charlton

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Charlton

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Charlton

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Charlton Heston

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

Computed for 42.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Evanston at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 15.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Evanston sits at 42.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Evanston on any night.

The Moon, 31% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.

How unusual Charlton's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Charlton Heston's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Charlton Heston was born on October 4, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Charlton Heston's birth date, October 4, 1923, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Charlton’s chart

Charlton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.2° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.8° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.5° orbSun in Libra · 10°28′☉10°Moon in Cancer · 28°15′☽28°Mercury in Virgo · 29°51′ · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Libra · 16°57′♀16°Mars in Virgo · 21°27′♂21°Jupiter in Scorpio · 19°07′♃19°Saturn in Libra · 21°30′♄21°Uranus in Pisces · 14°36′ · retrograde♅℞14°Neptune in Leo · 19°43′♆19°Pluto in Cancer · 12°22′♇12°

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

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

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° to 0.7° orb

    Charlton’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

    Charlton’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Charlton’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.1° to 2.5° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 0°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 10°44′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 3°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 11°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Sun 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.2°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 2.4°

Charlton’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Charlton’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.4°

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Charlton’s cards

Computed from October 4, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Charlton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80739 (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 20th Century Fox studios, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Charlton Heston at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Charlton Heston.

Quick answers about Charlton Heston’s chart

What zodiac sign was Charlton Heston?
Charlton Heston was a Libra: born October 4, 1923, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Charlton Heston's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1923 birth.
How tall was Charlton Heston?
Charlton Heston was 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Charlton Heston's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Charlton Heston's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Charlton Heston's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Charlton Heston's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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