Clifford K. Berryman
Clifford K. Berryman (born April 2, 1869, Clifton, United States; died 1949), was an American cartoonist. Berryman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Clifford K. Berryman’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Clifford
Clifford K. Berryman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
No US figure exists for 1869 — the SSA series begins 11 years later. Clifford opened it at 107th among boys and 764th among girls, 127 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Clifford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The record
What sets Clifford apart
Clifford K. Berryman took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1944, at 75.
The grave is at Glenwood Cemetery.
The family line: married Katherine Durfee Berryman and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Clifford K. Berryman: Burials at Glenwood Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), Artists from Kentucky and People from Boyle County, Kentucky.
Marvin Gaye (1939) and Alberto Fernández (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1944)
- Buried at
- Glenwood Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Clifford, according to the stars
Core essence
Clifford leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Clifford is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Clifford wants to be loved
Clifford wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Clifford creates
How Clifford makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Clifford creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Clifford is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Clifford 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Clifford fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
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 Clifford K. Berryman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clifton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Clifton that night
Computed for 37.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Clifton at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 58% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Clifton, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 1949.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Clifford K. Berryman: 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
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aries · Grand trine · No Air planets
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 K. Berryman at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Clifford K. Berryman's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 2, 1869, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeSays less than it knows.
Clifford K. Berryman was born on April 2, 1869, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Clifford K. Berryman's birth date, April 2, 1869, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Clifford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clifford K. Berryman's date-only chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Clifford K. Berryman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Clifford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Clifford’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquarePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Clifford’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.3° orb
Clifford’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.8° to 3.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.4° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire7 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Clifford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 0°38′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 10°35′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 15°21′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°25′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.1°
- Eros square Mars 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.8°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.8°
Clifford’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Clifford’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.3°
Clifford’s family here
One relative of Clifford K. Berryman also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Fellow Aries suns
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Born in Snake years
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- Alexander FlemingScottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate
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Also born on April 2
- Marvin Gaye1939
- Alberto Fernández1959
- Michael Fassbender1977
- Pedro Pascal1975
- Mollie O'Callaghan2004
- Bobby Bones1980
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Denise CoatesEnglish businesswoman
- Ludwig MerckleGerman businessman
- Brian ArmstrongAmerican business executive and investor
Other Aries Snake charts
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
- Leslie HowardBritish actor
- Joseph Hooton TaylorAmerican astronomer
- Roger Martin du GardFrench writer
Other Tidal Diplomats
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- LizzoAmerican singer and rapper
- Elliott SmithAmerican musician
Famous people with Life Path 3
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Clifford’s cards
Computed from April 2, 1869. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Clifford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5132985 (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 Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Clifford K. Berryman at Wikipedia.
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Quick answers about Clifford K. Berryman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Clifford K. Berryman?
- Clifford K. Berryman was an Aries: born April 2, 1869, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Clifford K. Berryman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 2, 1869 birth.
- What was Clifford K. Berryman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Clifford K. Berryman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Clifford K. Berryman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Clifford K. Berryman's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
