Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef (born January 9, 1925, Somerville, United States; died 1989), was an American actor. Cleef's honours include Bronze Star Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal.
Lee Van Cleef’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lee
Lee Van Cleef’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lee in the U.S.?
#727
US rank in 2025
~295,926
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1925, Lee came 82nd among boys and 292nd among girls, carried by 2,537 American boys and 531 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lee’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Lee apart
Lee Van Cleef took the Golden Boot Awards in 1983, at 58.
The classrooms behind this chart: Somerville High School.
The working life starts in 1952, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lee Van Cleef: Male actors from Oxnard, California, Somerville High School (New Jersey) alumni and Deaths from throat cancer in California.
Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Somerville High School
- Awards
- Golden Boot Awards (1983)
- Working from
- 1952
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
Lee, according to the stars
Core essence
Lee is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Lee is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Lee is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Lee needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Lee wants to be loved
Lee wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Lee and watch them fall for you again.
How Lee creates
How Lee makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lee creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Lee is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lee is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Lee gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Lee's birth date. Working below.
Where Lee sits
Six lines
Lee’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Lee Van Cleef
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Somerville 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 Somerville that night
Computed for 40.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Somerville was Menkib, in Perseus, 83.2° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Somerville on any night.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Somerville, United States
The death is recorded at Oxnard, Ventura County in 1989.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lee Van Cleef: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lee's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Mars · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →Lee Van Cleef at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Lee Van Cleef's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Lee Van Cleef was born on January 9, 1925, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Lee Van Cleef's birth date, January 9, 1925, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lee’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lee Van Cleef's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Lee Van Cleef combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Lee’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Cancer 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Lee’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Lee’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto0.4° to 1.0° orb
Lee’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.8° to 2.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.0° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.1° to 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Lee’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 20°08′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°07′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 9°27′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°03′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron square Sun 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.9°
Lee’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Lee’s chart
Grand trine · Saturn, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
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Born in United States
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Also born on January 9
- Catherine, Princess of Wales1982
- Jimmy Page1944
- Sean Paul1973
- Nicola Peltz1995
- Lee Kun-hee1942
- Dave Matthews1967
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Brenden AaronsonAmerican soccer player
- Dejan LjubičićAustrian association football player
- Joaquín PiquerezUruguayan association football player
Other Capricorn Rat charts
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- Lawrence KasdanAmerican film director and film producer
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- Patrick PentzAustrian association football player
Other Tidal Visionarys
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- Charles WuorinenAmerican composer
- Anthony R. DolanSpeechwriter to Ronald Reagan
- John Gould FletcherAmerican writer
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Lee’s cards
Computed from January 9, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193278 (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 Giulio Petroni (director)PEC/United Artists, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lee Van Cleef at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lee Van Cleef.
Quick answers about Lee Van Cleef’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lee Van Cleef?
- Lee Van Cleef was a Capricorn: born January 9, 1925, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Lee Van Cleef's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1925 birth.
- How tall was Lee Van Cleef?
- Lee Van Cleef was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Lee Van Cleef's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lee Van Cleef's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lee Van Cleef's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lee Van Cleef's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
