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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Lee Van Cleef, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Cancer 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.
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
Lee’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 4.2° orb
Lee’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
Lee’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.0° to 5.4° orb
Lee’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
Lee’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars5.7° to 6.1° orb
Lee’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableUranustrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
Lee’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.1° orb
Lee’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.1° to 7.3° orb
Lee’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 20°08′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Lee may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 28°07′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Lee looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 9°27′ (moves 0.59° 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. Lee is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°03′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Lee is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°35′ (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 Lee 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.
- 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°
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°).
Lee’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Lee is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Lee’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.
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 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.
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lee Van Cleef, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Lee’s cards
Every card is computed from January 9, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Lee Van Cleef, 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
Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193278, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- 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.
- What time was Lee Van Cleef 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.
- 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 from the January 9, 1925 birth date.
- What was Lee Van Cleef's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 9, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
