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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

The SSA recorded 52 American boys named Clark in 1901: 238th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Clark’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

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

Clark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

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 1900, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Clark apart

The Academy Award for Best Actor came in 1935, when Clark Gable was 34.

Clark Gable was 22 when the work began in 1923.

The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.

Clark Gable was born to Adeline Herschelman and William H. Gable, married Carole Lombard and Josephine Dillon and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Clark Gable under Military personnel from Ohio, Ohio Republicans and MPAPAI members.

Gabriel Batistuta (1969) and Lisa Marie Presley (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (1935) and Golden Boot Awards (2001)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1923
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
106

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. Working below.

Where Clark sits

Six lines

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

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Cadiz that night

Computed for 40.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cadiz was Capella, in Auriga, 83.9° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Cadiz sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Cadiz, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1960.

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

How unusual Clark's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · No Water planets · Mars 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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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.

What Aquarius means →

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.

What the Rat means →

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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Clark’s chart

Clark’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Cancer depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercurysextileUranus3.1° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.9° to 6.1° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Clark’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Clark’s chart

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

  • 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°

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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle

Clark’s cards

Computed from February 1, 1901. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Clark Gable at Wikipedia, clarkgable.com, 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 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.
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.
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.
What was Clark Gable's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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