Claude Simon
Claude Simon (born October 10, 1913, Antananarivo, Madagascar; died 2005), was a French writer. Simon is best remembered for Hommage à Piero della Francesca. Simon's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit and Prix Médicis.
Claude Simon’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Claude
Claude Simon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 1,076 American boys and 13 girls named Claude in 1913: 88th among boys and 1,690th among girls for the year.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as 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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Claude apart
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Claude, according to the stars
Core essence
Claude makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Claude is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Claude needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Claude needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Claude wants to be loved
Claude wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Claude and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Claude creates
How Claude makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Claude builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Claude is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Claude does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Claude Simon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Antananarivo 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 Antananarivo that night
Computed for 18.91°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Skat stood nearest the zenith over Antananarivo at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.1° above the horizon in Aquarius.
Of the 76 catalog stars above the horizon, Canopus was the brightest.
Antananarivo sits at 18.9°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Claude's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · No Fire planets
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Claude Simon's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Claude Simon was born on October 10, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Claude Simon's birth date, October 10, 1913, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Claude’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claude Simon's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, 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 Simon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Claude’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aquarius 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 1.7° orb
Claude’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.8° to 2.3° orb
Claude’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb
Claude’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.8° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.5° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 1.4° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Claude’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 11°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°00′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 28°19′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 27°52′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Neptune 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.8°
Claude’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Claude’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Neptune, MercuryAn 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 2.5°
More people like Claude
Other writers
- Anthony Boucher1911
- John Berryman1914
- Robert Lewis Taylor1912
- Theodore H. White1915
- Naguib Mahfouz1911
- Daniel J. Boorstin1914
Born in Madagascar
- Gisèle RabesahalaMalagasy politician and activist who was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in the government of Madagascar
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Born in Ox years
- Bill EnglishPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017
- Ratan TataIndian industrialist
- Levi StraussGerman-Jewish-born American businessman
Also born on October 10
- Gavin Newsom1967
- Marina Diamandis1985
- Brett Favre1969
- Mario Lopez1973
- Bradley Whitford1959
- Chris Penn1965
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Thomas Bo LarsenDanish actor
- Zaira Wasimformer Indian actress
- Sean BridgersAmerican actor and director
Other Libra Ox charts
- Enrico FermiItalian–American physicist
- Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel (born 1949)
- Julia GillardPrime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
- Bruce SpringsteenAmerican rock singer
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Angela MerkelChancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
- Louis PasteurFrench chemist and microbiologist
- Elon MuskAmerican businessman
- Bruce LeeHong Kong–American martial artist and actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Carmen ElectraAmerican actress, model, and singer
- Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
- Jafar PanahiIranian film director
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Claude’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131549 (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 https://www.flickr.com/people/7313591@N02 Renaud Camus] from Plieux, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claude Simon at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Claude Simon.
Quick answers about Claude Simon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Claude Simon?
- Claude Simon was a Libra: born October 10, 1913, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Claude Simon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1913 birth.
- What was Claude Simon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Claude Simon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Claude Simon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Claude Simon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
