Chuck Philips
Chuck Philips (born October 15, 1952, Detroit, United States; died 2024), was an American writer and investigative journalist. Philips's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and George Polk Award.
Chuck Philips’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Chuck
Chuck Philips’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Chuck in the U.S.?
#8381
US rank in 2025
~17,871
Americans share it since 1914
1961
its peak year
Chuck ranked 570th in 1952, the year of this birth, with 150 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chuck’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chuck’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
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 Chuck apart
David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Chuck, according to the stars
Core essence
Chuck makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Chuck 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Chuck is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Chuck needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Chuck wants to be loved
Chuck wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Chuck even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Chuck creates
How Chuck makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Chuck builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Chuck is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Chuck 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Chuck does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Chuck's birth date. Working below.
Where Chuck sits
Six lines
Chuck’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Chuck Philips
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Deneb, in Cygnus, 74.2° up.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Detroit on any night.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon down and 8% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Chuck's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Pluto
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.
Score your own chart →Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Chuck Philips's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Chuck Philips was born on October 15, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Chuck Philips's birth date, October 15, 1952, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Chuck’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chuck Philips' date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Chuck Philips combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Chuck’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Virgo 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
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Chuck’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextilePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb
Chuck’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquarePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Chuck’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 4.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Chuck’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 7°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°29′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°14′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°56′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.0°
Chuck’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Chuck’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
More people like Chuck
Other journalists
- Dana Priest1957
- Bill Keller1949
- Gayle King1956
- David Horsey1951
- Blair Kamin1957
- Karen Elliott House1947
Born in United States
- Jim MorinPulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
- Jayne Anne PhillipsAmerican writer (born 1952)
- John MegnaAmerican actor
- Rita DoveAmerican poet and author
- Mary SteenburgenAmerican actress, singer and songwriter
- Anna QuindlenAmerican journalist and novelist (born 1952)
More charts like Chuck’s
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- TreVeyon HendersonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Troy FautanuAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Kevin Jobity Jr.American football defensive lineman, Syracuse (2022–202_)
Born in Dragon years
- Amber BensonAmerican actress
- Art MalikBritish actor
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Also born on October 15
- David Trezeguet1977
- Fela Kuti1938
- Anthony Joshua1989
- Ncuti Gatwa1992
- Keyshia Cole1981
- Sebastián Yatra1994
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Shawn Johnson EastAmerican artistic gymnast (born 1992)
- Jana KramerAmerican singer and actress
- Jane KrakowskiAmerican actress and singer, comedian
Other Libra Dragon charts
- Ty PenningtonAmerican television host
- Max ThieriotAmerican actor
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
- Alicia VikanderSwedish actress (born 1988)
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Freida McFaddenAmerican thriller author and practicing physician
- Angel ReeseAmerican basketball player
- Zandra RhodesBritish fashion designer
- AuronPlaySpanish Twitch streamer and YouTuber
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jack OsbourneBritish actor
- Bill O'ReillyAmerican political commentator, television host and writer
- Courtney RobertsonAmerican model
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Chuck’s cards
Computed from October 15, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chuck’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5115658 (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 Djpilibbossian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chuck Philips at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Chuck Philips.
Quick answers about Chuck Philips’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chuck Philips?
- Chuck Philips was a Libra: born October 15, 1952, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Chuck Philips's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1952 birth.
- What was Chuck Philips's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Chuck Philips's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Chuck Philips's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chuck Philips's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
