Clifford J. Levy
Clifford J. Levy (born June 15, 1967, New Rochelle, United States), aged 59, is an American journalist. Levy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and George Polk Award.
Clifford J. Levy’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Clifford
Clifford J. Levy’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1967, 1,513 American boys and 15 girls were registered Clifford — 174th among boys and 3,368th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Clifford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 6: voice against care.
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
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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 1967, 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 Clifford apart
The George Polk Award came in 1998, when Clifford J. Levy was 31.
Clifford J. Levy was taught at New Rochelle High School and Princeton University.
On Wikipedia the categories read New Rochelle High School alumni, Writers from New Rochelle, New York and American investigative journalists.
Xi Jinping (1953) and Mohamed Salah (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New Rochelle High School and Princeton University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2011), George Polk Award (1998) and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2009)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Clifford, according to the stars
Core essence
Clifford is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Clifford needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Clifford creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Clifford is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Clifford is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Clifford fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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.
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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Clifford J. Levy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Rochelle 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 New Rochelle that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over New Rochelle at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
New Rochelle sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Rochelle at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 57% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New Rochelle, United States
- Lives in
- Brooklyn
Wikidata records Brooklyn as Clifford J. Levy's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Clifford J. Levy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Clifford's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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 →Clifford J. Levy at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Clifford J. Levy's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 15, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Clifford J. Levy was born on June 15, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Clifford J. Levy's birth date, June 15, 1967, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Clifford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clifford J. Levy's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Clifford J. Levy combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Clifford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Clifford’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareMars0.1° to 0.6° orb
Clifford’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.5° orb
Clifford’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.4° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars6.1° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Clifford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 28°56′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°37′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 11°24′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.6°
- Eros square Mercury 1.8°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.2°
Clifford’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Clifford’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.7°
More people like Clifford
Other journalists
- Don Lemon1966
- Amy Harmon1968
- Emily Nussbaum1966
- Tucker Carlson1969
- Jim Yardley1964
- Gareth Cook1969
Born in United States
- Paul GiamattiAmerican actor (born 1967)
- Nicole KidmanAustralian-American actress, producer, and model
- Ron LivingstonAmerican actor
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Anderson CooperAmerican journalist (born 1967)
- Melora HardinAmerican actress
More charts like Clifford’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Michael ChabonAmerican novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Richard PowersAmerican novelist (born 1957)
- Theodore RoethkeAmerican poet
Born in Goat years
- Eddy GilmoreAmerican journalist
- Michael D’AntonioAmerican journalist and writer
- Alfred AustinBritish writer and poet
Also born on June 15
- Xi Jinping1953
- Mohamed Salah1992
- Courteney Cox1964
- Ice Cube1969
- Neil Patrick Harris1973
- Lakshmi Mittal1950
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Barbara StrauchAmerican writer
- Robert ColesAmerican psychiatrist
- Emily NussbaumAmerican television critic
Other Gemini Goat charts
- Robert HillyerAmerican poet
- Margaret CoitAmerican historian
- E. R. ShippAmerican journalist
- Paul GigotAmerican journalist
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Jacoby BrissettAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Tytus HowardAmerican football player
- Elgton JenkinsAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Creed HumphreyAmerican football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Sasha PieterseSouth African actress, singer
- Caleb McLaughlinAmerican actor
- Zoey DeutchAmerican actress
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Clifford’s cards
Computed from June 15, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Clifford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5132977 (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 User:Sultanbayeva Gulmyra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Clifford J. Levy at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Clifford J. Levy.
Quick answers about Clifford J. Levy’s chart
- How old is Clifford J. Levy?
- Clifford J. Levy is 59 years old, born June 15, 1967 in New Rochelle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Clifford J. Levy?
- Clifford J. Levy is a Gemini: born June 15, 1967, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Clifford J. Levy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 15, 1967 birth.
- What is Clifford J. Levy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Clifford J. Levy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Clifford J. Levy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Clifford J. Levy's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
