Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke (born June 8, 1937, Cardiff, United Kingdom), aged 89, is a Welsh poet (born 1937). Clarke has served as National Poet of Wales. Clarke's honours include King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Cholmondeley Award and honorary doctorate.
Gillian Clarke’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Gillian
Gillian Clarke’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Gillian in the U.S.?
#3307
US rank in 2025
~16,127
Americans share it since 1922
1999
its peak year
In 1937, 6 American girls were registered Gillian — 3,982nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gillian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Gillian apart
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gillian, according to the stars
Core essence
Gillian is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Gillian needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Gillian processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Gillian needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Gillian wants to be loved
Gillian wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Gillian is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Gillian creates
How Gillian makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Gillian creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Gillian 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Gillian is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Gillian runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Gillian's birth date. Working below.
Where Gillian sits
Six lines
Gillian’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Gillian Clarke
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cardiff on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Cardiff that night
Computed for 51.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cardiff was Alioth, in Ursa Major, 85.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cardiff on any night.
Sun -3° below the horizon, Moon up and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Gillian's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · Mars retrograde
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Gillian Clarke's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Gillian Clarke was born on June 8, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Gillian Clarke's birth date, June 8, 1937, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Gillian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gillian Clarke's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Gillian Clarke combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Gillian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 19° Gemini 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb
Gillian’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Gillian’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionMars0.9° to 2.2° orb
Gillian’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.1° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gillian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°39′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 7°04′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 23°15′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.3°
Gillian’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Gillian’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Gillian’s cards
Computed from June 8, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5562222 (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.
The same Gillian Clarke at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gillian Clarke.
Quick answers about Gillian Clarke’s chart
- How old is Gillian Clarke?
- Gillian Clarke is 89 years old, born June 8, 1937 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Gillian Clarke?
- Gillian Clarke is a Gemini: born June 8, 1937, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Gillian Clarke's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1937 birth.
- What is Gillian Clarke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gillian Clarke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gillian Clarke's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gillian Clarke's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
