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Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb (born November 19, 1889, Indianapolis, United States; died 1966), was an American actor, singer and dancer. Webb's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Clifton Webb’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Clifton Webb’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#1907

US rank in 2025

~70,685

Americans share it since 1880

1975

its peak year

Clifton ranked 217th in 1889, the year of this birth, with 59 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Clifton’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 N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

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

Clifton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Clifton apart

Clifton Webb took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture in 1947, at 58.

Training came by way of Townsend Harris High School.

The working life starts in 1913, at 24.

Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Clifton Webb under LGBTQ people from Indiana, Male actors from Indianapolis and Townsend Harris High School alumni.

Indira Gandhi (1917) and Jodie Foster (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Townsend Harris High School
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1947)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1913
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Clifton, according to the stars

Core essence

Clifton does not do surface. The core of Clifton is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Clifton is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Clifton cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Clifton needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Clifton wants to be loved

Clifton wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Clifton even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Clifton creates

How Clifton 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. Clifton 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: Clifton is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Clifton is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

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. Clifton fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Clifton's birth date. Working below.

Where Clifton sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Clifton

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Clifton

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Clifton

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Clifton

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Clifton

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Clifton

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Clifton Webb

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

Clifton’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 47.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Indianapolis that night

Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Indianapolis at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 5.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.8°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 −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 12% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 52° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Indianapolis, United States

The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 1966.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Clifton Webb: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Clifton's chart is

Chart pattern score

78 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Pluto · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected 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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Clifton Webb's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 19, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Clifton Webb was born on November 19, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 2

Diplomat by instinct.

Clifton Webb's birth date, November 19, 1889, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Clifton’s chart

Clifton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.6° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 27°38′☉27°Moon in Libra · 13°34′☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 17°22′☿17°Venus in Scorpio · 5°56′♀5°Mars in Libra · 5°19′♂5°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°29′♃8°Saturn in Virgo · 3°21′♄3°Uranus in Libra · 24°30′♅24°Neptune in Gemini · 3°19′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Gemini · 6°06′ · retrograde♇℞6°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Clifton’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Clifton’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb

    Clifton’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.0° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.1° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 22°02′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 27°08′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 0°27′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 23°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Uranus 0.7°
  • Chiron square Uranus 2.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.8°
  • Eros trine Neptune 2.9°

Clifton’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Clifton’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.4°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Clifton’s cards

Computed from November 19, 1889. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Clifton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q560592 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Clifton Webb at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Clifton Webb.

Quick answers about Clifton Webb’s chart

What zodiac sign was Clifton Webb?
Clifton Webb was a Scorpio: born November 19, 1889, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Clifton Webb's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 19, 1889 birth.
What was Clifton Webb's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Clifton Webb's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Clifton Webb's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Clifton Webb's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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