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Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken (born November 30, 1978, Raleigh, United States), aged 47, is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer. Aiken has held office as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Clay Aiken’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Clay Aiken’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Clay in the U.S.?

#573

US rank in 2025

~40,525

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Clay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Clay apart

The same date carries Gael García Bernal. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

What the chart says

Clay, according to the stars

Core essence

Clay is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Clay 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Clay is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Clay needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Clay wants to be loved

Clay wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Clay even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Clay creates

How Clay makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Clay creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Clay is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Clay is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Clay has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Clay's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Clay sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Clay

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Clay

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

PrivateExpressive
Clay

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Clay

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

PracticalVisionary
Clay

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Clay

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Clay Aiken

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

Clay’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 86.9° 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, 46.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Clay Aiken at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Clay Aiken's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Clay Aiken was born on November 30, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Clay Aiken's birth date, November 30, 1978, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Clay’s chart

Clay’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Clay Aiken, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.9° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 8°08′☉8°Moon in Sagittarius · 13°02′☽13°Mercury in Sagittarius · 19°36′ · retrograde☿℞19°Venus in Scorpio · 7°26′♀7°Mars in Sagittarius · 20°58′♂20°Jupiter in Leo · 9°01′ · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Virgo · 13°24′♄13°Uranus in Scorpio · 18°02′♅18°Neptune in Sagittarius · 17°40′♆17°Pluto in Libra · 18°27′♇18°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Clay’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 2.2° orb

    Clay’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Clay’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

    Clay’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb

    Clay’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Clay’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb

    Clay’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 3.7° orb

    Clay’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° orb

    Clay’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° orb

    Clay’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb

    Clay’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb

    Clay’s mind grinds against their discipline.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Clay’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Clay building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°00′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Clay caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 18°56′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Clay is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°53′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Clay is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 5°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Clay is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°

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°).

Clay’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Clay is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Clay’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Clay Aiken, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Clay

Gael García Bernal was born on November 30, 1978 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Clay’s cards

Every card is computed from November 30, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Clay Aiken, 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

Clay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q347128, 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 Judy Butler Flickr user mystuff1, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Clay Aiken at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Clay Aiken.

Quick answers about Clay Aiken’s chart

How old is Clay Aiken?
Clay Aiken is 47 years old, born November 30, 1978 in Raleigh, United States.
What zodiac sign is Clay Aiken?
Clay Aiken is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1978, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
What is Clay Aiken's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1978 birth.
What time was Clay Aiken 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 is Clay Aiken's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 30, 1978 birth date.
What is Clay Aiken's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 30, 1978 birth date.
Where is Clay Aiken's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Clay Aiken's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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