Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull (born September 23, 1915, Pittsburgh, United States; died 2001), was an American physicist. Shull's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Clifford Shull’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Clifford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Clifford, according to the stars
How Clifford wants to be loved
Clifford wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Clifford gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Clifford creates
How Clifford makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Clifford creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Clifford is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: 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.
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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.
Virgo or Libra Sun
Clifford Shull was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Clifford Shull was born on September 23, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Clifford Shull's birth date, September 23, 1915, 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 Clifford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clifford Shull's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
Clifford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Clifford Shull, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Pisces or Aries 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
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
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.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 6.6° orb
Clifford’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.0° to 6.5° orb
Clifford’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Clifford’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Clifford’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Clifford’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
Clifford’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
Clifford’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
Clifford’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquarePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
Clifford’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.3° to 7.5° orb
Clifford’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 6.9° orb
Clifford’s drive and discipline act as one.
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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 ℞Pisces 19°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Clifford absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 29°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Clifford is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 15°41′ (moves 0.66° 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. Clifford is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°36′ (moves 0.39° 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 LilithGemini 14°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Clifford that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres trine Sun 0.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres trine Venus 3.0°
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. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Clifford is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Clifford Shull, 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 September 23, 1915, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Clifford Shull, 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 Q201506, 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 Photo is from US Atomic Energy Commission or Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Article rights are T. E. Mason et al. 2013 (for Oak Ridge National Laboratory)., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Clifford Shull at Wikipedia.
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 Shull’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Clifford Shull?
- Clifford Shull was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rabbit.
- What was Clifford Shull's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1915 birth.
- What time was Clifford Shull 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 Shull's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 23, 1915 birth date.
- What was Clifford Shull's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 23, 1915 birth date.
- Where was Clifford Shull's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Clifford Shull's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
