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Claude Sitton

Claude Sitton (born December 4, 1925, Atlanta, United States; died 2015), was an American journalist. Sitton's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, George Polk Award and John Chancellor Award.

Claude Sitton’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Claude Sitton’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

Claude ranked 102nd among boys and 2,301st among girls in 1925, the year of this birth, with 1,696 American boys and 16 girls on the register.

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

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Claude apart

Claude Sitton took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1983, at 58.

Emory University shaped the training.

Cause of death is recorded as cardiovascular disease; the grave is at Honey Creek Woodlands Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Claude Sitton under Emory College alumni, Journalists from Atlanta and The News & Observer.

Jay-Z (1969) and Tyra Banks (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Emory University
Awards
George Polk Award (1991), Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1983) and John Chancellor Award (2000)
Cause of death
cardiovascular disease
Buried at
Honey Creek Woodlands Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
3

What the chart says

Claude, according to the stars

Core essence

Claude is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Claude is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Claude wants to be loved

Claude 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 Claude you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Claude creates

How Claude makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Claude creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Claude runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Claude

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Claude

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Claude

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Claude

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Claude

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Claude

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 Claude Sitton

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atlanta on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Claude’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 87.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 44.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Atlanta that night

Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Atlanta at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 80% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Atlanta, United States

The death is recorded at Atlanta, Fulton County in 2015.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Claude Sitton: 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 Air 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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Claude Sitton at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Claude Sitton's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Claude Sitton was born on December 4, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Claude Sitton's birth date, December 4, 1925, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Claude’s chart

Claude’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 1.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.8° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Sagittarius · 12°03′☉12°Moon in Leo · 0°53′☽0°Mercury in Sagittarius · 26°30′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Capricorn · 29°07′♀29°Mars in Scorpio · 14°09′♂14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 22°52′♃22°Saturn in Scorpio · 19°56′♄19°Uranus in Pisces · 21°34′♅21°Neptune in Leo · 24°47′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Cancer · 14°17′ · retrograde♇℞14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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 7.2° orb

    Claude’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Claude’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus1.2° to 1.4° orb

    Claude’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.4° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.7° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.9° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 2.2° to 13.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Claude’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 24°41′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 27°44′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 22°49′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.3°
  • Eros square Venus 1.4°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 2.9°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 3.0°

Claude’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.9°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.2°

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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?

Claude’s cards

Computed from December 4, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16090119 (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.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Claude Sitton.

Quick answers about Claude Sitton’s chart

What zodiac sign was Claude Sitton?
Claude Sitton was a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Claude Sitton's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1925 birth.
What was Claude Sitton's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Claude Sitton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Claude Sitton's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Claude Sitton's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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