Soc Clay
Soc Clay (born September 23, 1936, Greenup County, United States; died 2021), was an American poet laureate from Kentucky. Clay served as poet laureate.
Soc Clay’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Soc
What Soc’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 S (1) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Soc’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Scarlet
The record
What sets Soc apart
Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Ray Charles (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Soc, according to the stars
How Soc wants to be loved
Soc wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Soc gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Soc creates
How Soc makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Soc creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Soc 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Soc is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Soc fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Soc's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Soc Clay
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greenup County 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 Greenup County that night
Computed for 38.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Greenup County was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 83.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Greenup County sits at 38.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 51% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Soc's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Virgo or Libra Sun
Soc Clay was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Soc Clay was born on September 23, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Soc Clay's birth date, September 23, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Soc’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Soc Clay's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Soc’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.5° orb
Soc’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Soc’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.8° to 1.0° orb
Soc’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableSunsextilePluto1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.2° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.2° to 5.4° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 3.1° to 15.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 4.1° to 16.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Soc’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio or Libra during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 10°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Eros square Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.1°
Soc’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Soc’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
More people like Soc
Other writers
- Fred Chappell1936
- C. K. Williams1936
- William Raspberry1935
- Lanford Wilson1937
- John Brunner1934
- Jim Wayne Miller1936
Born in United States
- Robert RedfordAmerican actor and director
- James M. McPhersonAmerican historian (born 1936)
- Keir DulleaAmerican actor
- C. K. WilliamsAmerican poet and critic
- Carl IcahnAmerican businessman
- Edward VillellaAmerican ballet dancer (born 1936)
More charts like Soc’s
Born in Rat years
- Shaquille O'NealAmerican basketball player
- Georges CharpakFrench physicist
- Tim CookAmerican business executive, Apple CEO
Also born on September 23
- Bruce Springsteen1949
- Ray Charles1930
- Julio Iglesias1943
- Michel Temer1940
- Napheesa Collier1996
- Jason Alexander1959
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- George SandersBritish actor
- Jean HagenAmerican actress
- Perry LopezAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Emily RatajkowskiAmerican model and actress
- Lena DunhamAmerican writer, director, actress, and producer
- Ezra MillerAmerican actor
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Soc’s cards
Computed from September 23, 1936. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Soc’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141145659 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Soc Clay.
Quick answers about Soc Clay’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Soc Clay?
- Soc Clay was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Soc Clay's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1936 birth.
- What was Soc Clay's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Soc Clay's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Soc Clay's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Soc Clay's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
