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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Ox, with 
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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.
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Gillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gillian sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gillian Clarke, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 19° Gemini 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.
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
Gillian’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
Gillian’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileJupiter4.4° to 4.5° orb
Gillian’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb
Gillian’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrinePluto5.1° to 5.4° orb
Gillian’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto5.5° to 6.3° orb
Gillian’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.7° orb
Gillian’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°39′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Gillian turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Gillian is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 7°04′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Gillian is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCancer 23°15′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Gillian is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Gillian is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.3°
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°).
Gillian’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gillian is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gillian’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.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gillian Clarke, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Gillian’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gillian Clarke, 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
Gillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5562222, 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.
The same Gillian Clarke 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
- 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 time was Gillian Clarke 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 is Gillian Clarke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1937 birth date.
- What is Gillian Clarke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1937 birth date.
- 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.
