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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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.
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~190,268
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Clifford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Clifford sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Clifford D. Simak at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe 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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Clifford D. Simak was born on August 3, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Clifford D. Simak's birth date, August 3, 1904, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Clifford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clifford D. Simak's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Clifford D. Simak combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Clifford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Clifford D. Simak, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Clifford’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.3° orb
Clifford’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Clifford’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.4° orb
Clifford’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.1° orb
Clifford’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.7° to 7.8° orb
Clifford’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.2° to 7.4° orb
Clifford’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Capricorn 26°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Clifford is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Clifford is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCancer 29°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Clifford is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 0°49′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Clifford is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Clifford is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.6°
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°).
Clifford’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Clifford is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Clifford’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Clifford D. Simak, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Clifford’s cards
Every card is computed from August 3, 1904, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Clifford D. Simak, 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
Clifford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q294625, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Clifford D. Simak 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 was Clifford D. Simak's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 3, 1904 birth date.
- What was Clifford D. Simak's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 3, 1904 birth date.
- 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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