Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson (born January 13, 1957, Chatham, United States; died 2014), was an American academic, writer and poet. Emerson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and Virginia Women in History.
Claudia Emerson’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Claudia
Claudia Emerson’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Claudia in the U.S.?
#1096
US rank in 2025
~129,078
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
In 1957, 1,663 American girls were registered Claudia — 204th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Claudia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Claudia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Claudia apart
The Witter Bynner Fellowship came in 2005, when Claudia Emerson was 48.
The schooling ran through University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of Virginia.
Cause of death is recorded as colorectal cancer.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Virginia, Deaths from colorectal cancer in Virginia and Poets laureate of Virginia.
Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of Virginia
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006) and Witter Bynner Fellowship (2005)
- Cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Claudia, according to the stars
Core essence
Claudia is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Claudia is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Claudia 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 Claudia needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Claudia wants to be loved
Claudia 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 Claudia you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Claudia creates
How Claudia makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Claudia creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Claudia is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Claudia is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Claudia gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Claudia's birth date. Working below.
Where Claudia sits
Six lines
Claudia’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Claudia Emerson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chatham 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 Chatham that night
Computed for 36.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chatham was Menkib, in Perseus, 85.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Chatham sits at 36.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −53.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chatham on any night.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chatham, United States
The death is recorded at Richmond, Virginia in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Claudia Emerson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Claudia's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Claudia Emerson's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Claudia Emerson was born on January 13, 1957, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Claudia Emerson's birth date, January 13, 1957, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Claudia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claudia Emerson's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Claudia Emerson 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.
Claudia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.1° to 1.3° orb
Claudia’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenustrinePluto0.4° to 1.7° orb
Claudia’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb
Claudia’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.0° to 5.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 5.0° to 19.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Claudia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°32′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 13°19′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°17′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°31′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Eros square Saturn 0.7°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
Claudia’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Claudia’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
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More charts like Claudia’s
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on January 13
- Orlando Bloom1977
- Liam Hemsworth1990
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus1961
- Asake1995
- Patrick Dempsey1966
- Nicole Eggert1972
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- VJ PayneAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Shane BuecheleAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Julian LoveAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
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- Jared KushnerAmerican businessman and real estate investor (born 1981)
- Rod StewartEnglish singer and songwriter (born 1945)
- Dafne KeenSpanish-British actress (born 2005)
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Poona FordAmerican football defensive tackle
- Chuba HubbardCanadian-born American football player (born 1999)
- Nakobe DeanAmerican football linebacker
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Famous people with Life Path 9
- Mona Van DuynAmerican poet
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Claudia’s cards
Computed from January 13, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claudia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5129165 (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.
The same Claudia Emerson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Claudia Emerson.
Quick answers about Claudia Emerson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Claudia Emerson?
- Claudia Emerson was a Capricorn: born January 13, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Claudia Emerson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1957 birth.
- What was Claudia Emerson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Claudia Emerson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Claudia Emerson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Claudia Emerson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
