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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Clifton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

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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 →

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.

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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Clifton’s chart

Clifton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Clifton Webb, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Clifton’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb

    Clifton’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

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

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.8° orb

    Clifton’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.0° to 3.4° orb

    Clifton’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.1° to 6.2° orb

    Clifton’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.1° to 5.2° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb

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

  • 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

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

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Clifton is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

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

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Clifton is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

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

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Clifton is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

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

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Clifton is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Clifton guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Clifton’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. 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

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Clifton is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Clifton’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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Clifton Webb, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Clifton’s cards

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Judgement

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The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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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

No birth time is on public record for Clifton Webb, 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

Clifton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q560592, 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.

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The same Clifton Webb at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
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 time was Clifton Webb 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 Clifton Webb's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 19, 1889 birth date.
What was Clifton Webb's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 19, 1889 birth date.
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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