Clinton Davisson
Clinton Davisson (born October 22, 1881, Bloomington, United States; died 1958), was an American physicist. Davisson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal and Elliott Cresson Medal.
Clinton Davisson’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Clinton Davisson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Clinton in the U.S.?
#1732
US rank in 2025
~98,005
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Clinton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Clinton, according to the stars
Core essence
Clinton makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Clinton is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Clinton creates
How Clinton 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. Clinton 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: Clinton 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Clinton is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Clinton 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 Clinton's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Clinton Davisson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 22, 1881, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Clinton Davisson was born on October 22, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Clinton Davisson's birth date, October 22, 1881, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Clinton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clinton Davisson's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Clinton Davisson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Clinton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Clinton Davisson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Libra or Scorpio 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
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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.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.4° orb
Clinton’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
Clinton’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Clinton’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.5° to 1.9° orb
Clinton’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
Clinton’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
Clinton’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.3° orb
Clinton’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.9° orb
Clinton’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.5° orb
Clinton’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineJupiterorb from 5.9° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleJupitertrineUranusorb from 7.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Clinton’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 ℞Taurus 21°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Clinton building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Clinton is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 24°14′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Clinton is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°22′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Clinton at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Clinton is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Clinton’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. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Clinton 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 Clinton’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 in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Clinton Davisson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Clinton’s cards
Every card is computed from October 22, 1881, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Clinton Davisson, 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
Clinton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133222, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Clinton Davisson at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 Clinton Davisson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Clinton Davisson?
- Clinton Davisson was a Libra: born October 22, 1881, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- What was Clinton Davisson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 22, 1881 birth.
- What time was Clinton Davisson 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 Clinton Davisson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 22, 1881 birth date.
- What was Clinton Davisson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 22, 1881 birth date.
- Where was Clinton Davisson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Clinton Davisson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
