Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon (born April 30, 1916, Petoskey, United States; died 2001), was an American mathematician and information theorist. Shannon is best remembered for Shannon–Weaver model, information entropy and Shannon capacity. Shannon's honours include Marconi Prize, National Medal of Science and IEEE Medal of Honor.
Claude Shannon’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Claude Shannon’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Claude, according to the stars
Core essence
Claude is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Claude is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Claude runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Claude needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Claude wants to be loved
Claude wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Claude like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Claude creates
How Claude makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Claude creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Claude 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Claude 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Claude fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Claude's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Claude sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Claude Shannon's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Claude Shannon's birth date, April 30, 1916, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Claude’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claude Shannon's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Claude Shannon combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Claude’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Claude Shannon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Aries 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.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.2° orb
Claude’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.9° to 1.1° orb
Claude’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.0° to 1.3° orb
Claude’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.3° to 2.2° orb
Claude’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 4.2° orb
Claude’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenustrineUranus5.5° to 6.4° orb
Claude’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.7° orb
Claude’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.7° to 6.8° orb
Claude’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Claude absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresGemini 15°56′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Claude feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 29°06′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Claude is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 17°47′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Claude is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 8°46′ (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.
- Chiron square Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 3.0°
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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Claude is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Claude Shannon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Claude’s cards
Every card is computed from April 30, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Claude Shannon, 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 Q92760, 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 Jacobs, Konrad, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claude Shannon at Wikipedia.
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 Shannon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Claude Shannon?
- Claude Shannon was a Taurus: born April 30, 1916, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Claude Shannon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1916 birth.
- What time was Claude Shannon 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.
- What was Claude Shannon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 30, 1916 birth date.
- What was Claude Shannon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 30, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Claude Shannon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Claude Shannon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
