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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Claude
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.
How common is the name Claude in the U.S.?
#3044
US rank in 2025
~92,289
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1889, Claude came 49th among boys and 1,321st among girls, carried by 386 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Claude’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Claude apart
Claude Rains took the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1951, at 62.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1920, at 31.
Cause of death is recorded as liver cirrhosis; the grave is at Red Hill Cemetery.
On the family side, Claude Rains was born to Fred Rains and married Isabel Jeans and Agi Jambor.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Claude Rains: British acting coaches, People from Clapham and Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Brittany Murphy (1977) and João Félix (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1951)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1920
- Cause of death
- liver cirrhosis
- Buried at
- Red Hill Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
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.
Computed from Claude's birth date. Working below.
Where Claude sits
Six lines
Claude’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Claude Rains
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clapham 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 Clapham that night
Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Clapham at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Clapham at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Clapham, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Laconia, Belknap County in 1967.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Claude Rains: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Claude's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets · 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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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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.4° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.2° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 22°13′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 23°06′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°48′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Claude’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Claude’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
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Other Gilded Guardians
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- Wesley FrançaBrazilian footballer (born 2003)
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Claude’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318734 (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 Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claude Rains 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 Claude Rains.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Claude Rains's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
