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Clark Gable

Clark Gable (born February 1, 1901, Cadiz, United States; died 1960), was an American actor. Gable's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and Golden Boot Awards.

Clark Gable’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Clark Gable’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#377

US rank in 2025

~51,205

Americans share it since 1880

1961

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Clark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Clark, according to the stars

Core essence

Clark is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Clark is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Clark is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Clark needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Clark wants to be loved

Clark 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 Clark you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Clark creates

How Clark makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Clark 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: Clark is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Clark is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Clark 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 Clark's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Clark sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Clark

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Clark

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

PrivateExpressive
Clark

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Clark

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

PracticalVisionary
Clark

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Clark

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Clark Gable

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cadiz on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Clark’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 83.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 44.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Clark Gable's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Metal Rat

Saw the opening before you did.

Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Clark Gable's birth date, February 1, 1901, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Clark’s chart

Clark’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Clark Gable, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 1.3° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.9° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.7° orbSun in Aquarius · 12°11′☉12°Moon in Cancer · 18°58′☽18°Mercury in Aquarius · 19°49′☿19°Venus in Capricorn · 20°14′♀20°Mars in Virgo · 10°04′ · retrograde♂℞10°Jupiter in Capricorn · 2°47′♃2°Saturn in Capricorn · 11°19′♄11°Uranus in Sagittarius · 15°53′♅15°Neptune in Gemini · 26°46′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Gemini · 15°49′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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 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

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.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.3° orb

    Clark’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Clark’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.1° to 1.4° orb

    Clark’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb

    Clark’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus3.1° to 4.8° orb

    Clark’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 4.9° orb

    Clark’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb

    Clark’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.6° to 5.9° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.0° orb

    Clark’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.9° to 6.1° orb

    Clark’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.1° to 15.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Clark’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 1°55′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Clark is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 5°09′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Clark is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 29°10′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Clark wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Clark is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Clark that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.8°

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°).

Clark’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Clark is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Clark’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 · Uranus, Pluto, MarsAn 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 2.1°

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

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Clark’s cards

Every card is computed from February 1, 1901, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Clark Gable, 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

Clark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71243, 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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Clark Gable at Wikipedia, clarkgable.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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 Clark Gable.

Quick answers about Clark Gable’s chart

What zodiac sign was Clark Gable?
Clark Gable was an Aquarius: born February 1, 1901, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat.
What was Clark Gable's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 1, 1901 birth.
What time was Clark Gable 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.
How tall was Clark Gable?
Clark Gable was 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Clark Gable's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 1, 1901 birth date.
What was Clark Gable's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 1, 1901 birth date.
Where was Clark Gable's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Clark Gable's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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