Claude Rains
Claude Rains (born November 10, 1889, Clapham, United Kingdom; died 1967), was a British actor. Rains's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Donaldson Awards and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Claude Rains’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Claude Rains’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Claude, according to the stars
Core essence
Claude does not do surface. The core of Claude is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Claude is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Claude processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Claude needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Claude wants to be loved
Claude 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. Claude gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Claude creates
How Claude makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Claude 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: Claude is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Claude is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Claude Rains's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
Claude Rains was born on November 10, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Claude Rains's birth date, November 10, 1889, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Claude’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claude Rains' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Fire.
- Claude Rains combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Claude’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Claude Rains, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Claude’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Claude’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.7° orb
Claude’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.7° orb
Claude’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
Claude’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.4° orb
Claude’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb
Claude’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.7° to 3.9° orb
Claude’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrinePluto6.2° to 6.8° orb
Claude’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 4.0° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Claude’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 22°13′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Claude is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLibra 23°06′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Claude is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°48′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Claude is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Claude is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Claude guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Eros square Venus 1.4°
- Chiron square Uranus 1.7°
- Eros square Uranus 1.8°
- Chiron square Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
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°).
Claude’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Claude is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Claude’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Claude Rains, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Claude’s cards
Every card is computed from November 10, 1889, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Claude Rains, 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
Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318734, 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 Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claude Rains at Wikipedia, 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.
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Quick answers about Claude Rains’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Claude Rains?
- Claude Rains was a Scorpio: born November 10, 1889, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
- What was Claude Rains's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1889 birth.
- What time was Claude Rains 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 Claude Rains?
- Claude Rains was 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Claude Rains's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 10, 1889 birth date.
- What was Claude Rains's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 10, 1889 birth date.
- Where was Claude Rains's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Claude Rains's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
