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Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke (born November 1, 1959, Nottingham, United Kingdom), aged 67, is a British author (1959-). Clarke is best known for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Clarke's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Women's Prize for Fiction and Mythopoeic Awards.

Susanna Clarke’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Susanna Clarke’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Susanna in the U.S.?

#1181

US rank in 2025

~19,987

Americans share it since 1880

1958

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1959, Susanna came 586th, carried by 286 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Susanna’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

11

Soul Urge · insight

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Susanna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Susanna apart

Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Susanna, according to the stars

Core essence

Susanna does not do surface. The core of Susanna is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Susanna is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Susanna feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Susanna needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Susanna wants to be loved

Susanna wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Susanna and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Susanna creates

How Susanna makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Susanna creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Susanna is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Susanna 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Susanna 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 Susanna's birth date. Working below.

Where Susanna sits

Six lines

Susanna’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Susanna

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Susanna

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Susanna

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Susanna

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Susanna

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Susanna

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Susanna Clarke

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nottingham 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 Nottingham that night

Computed for 52.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Nottingham at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Nottingham sits at 53.0°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −37.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Nottingham on any night.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.

How unusual Susanna's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Susanna Clarke's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Susanna Clarke was born on November 1, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Susanna Clarke's birth date, November 1, 1959, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Susanna’s chart

Susanna’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 8°19′☉8°Moon in Scorpio · 16°07′☽16°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°37′☿1°Venus in Virgo · 22°07′♀22°Mars in Scorpio · 7°33′♂7°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 5°19′♃5°Saturn in Capricorn · 3°01′♄3°Uranus in Leo · 20°46′♅20°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°45′♆6°Pluto in Virgo · 5°49′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.4° to 0.6° orb

    Susanna’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Susanna’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.6° to 0.9° orb

    Susanna’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Susanna’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°41′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 15°16′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°46′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 23°16′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 3.0°

Susanna’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Susanna’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°

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Susanna’s cards

Computed from November 1, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Susanna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232772 (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 Patrick Nielsen Hayden from Brooklyn, New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Susanna Clarke 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 Susanna Clarke.

Quick answers about Susanna Clarke’s chart

How old is Susanna Clarke?
Susanna Clarke is 67 years old, born November 1, 1959 in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Susanna Clarke?
Susanna Clarke is a Scorpio: born November 1, 1959, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Susanna Clarke's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1959 birth.
What is Susanna Clarke's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Susanna Clarke's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Susanna Clarke's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Susanna Clarke's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 6 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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