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Clifford D. Simak

Clifford D. Simak (born August 3, 1904, Millville, United States; died 1988), was an American writer, journalist. Simak is best remembered for Way Station. Simak's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

Clifford D. Simak’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Clifford

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Clifford D. Simak’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1352

US rank in 2025

~190,268

Americans share it since 1880

1925

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1904, Clifford came 66th among boys and 942nd among girls, carried by 361 American boys and 15 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Clifford’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Clifford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

The record

What sets Clifford apart

Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Clifford, according to the stars

Core essence

Clifford is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Clifford is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Clifford wants to be loved

Clifford wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Clifford openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Clifford creates

How Clifford makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Clifford creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

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

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Clifford 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 Clifford 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 Clifford's birth date. Working below.

Where Clifford sits

Six lines

Clifford’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Clifford

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Clifford

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Clifford

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Clifford

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

PracticalVisionary
Clifford

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Clifford

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Clifford’s birth-night reference starEltaninwarm orange · DracoEltanin, in Draco. A warm orange star, 81.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Eltanin →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Millville that night

Computed for 43.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Millville at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Millville on any night.

Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 55% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Clifford's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 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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Clifford D. Simak at a glance

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Clifford D. Simak's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Clifford D. Simak was born on August 3, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Clifford D. Simak's birth date, August 3, 1904, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Clifford’s chart

Clifford’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.1° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.6° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Leo · 10°55′☉10°Moon in Taurus · 1°25′☽1°Mercury in Virgo · 3°23′☿3°Venus in Leo · 18°14′♀18°Mars in Cancer · 22°37′♂22°Jupiter in Aries · 29°46′♃29°Saturn in Aquarius · 18°11′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Sagittarius · 26°22′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Cancer · 6°58′♆6°Pluto in Gemini · 21°18′♇21°

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

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Clifford’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.8° orb

    Clifford’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.5° to 3.7° orb

    Clifford’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.8° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.4° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn6.7° to 7.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus7.2° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 26°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 29°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 0°49′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.0°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.6°

Clifford’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Clifford’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.

  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°

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Clifford’s cards

Computed from August 3, 1904. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Clifford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q294625 (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 Stellar Publishing / unidentified staff artist(s), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Clifford D. Simak at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Clifford D. Simak.

Quick answers about Clifford D. Simak’s chart

What zodiac sign was Clifford D. Simak?
Clifford D. Simak was a Leo: born August 3, 1904, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Clifford D. Simak's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1904 birth.
What was Clifford D. Simak's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Clifford D. Simak's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Clifford D. Simak's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Clifford D. Simak's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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