Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn (born July 12, 1934, Shreveport, United States; died 2013), was an American pianist. Cliburn's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of Friendship and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Van Cliburn’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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Van Cliburn’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Van in the U.S.?
#972
US rank in 2025
~31,194
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Van’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Van, according to the stars
Core essence
Van feels the room before entering it. The core of Van is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Van, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Van wants to be loved
Van wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Van like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Van creates
How Van makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Van builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Van is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Van 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Van scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Van's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Van sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Van Cliburn's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Van Cliburn was born on July 12, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Van Cliburn's birth date, July 12, 1934, 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 Van’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Van Cliburn's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Van Cliburn combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Van’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Van Cliburn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.6° orb
Van’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 0.9° orb
Van’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.7° orb
Van’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
Van’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.6° to 3.3° orb
Van’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileUranus3.0° to 3.7° orb
Van’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb
Van’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.0° orb
Van’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb
Van’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.1° to 6.8° orb
Van’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.4° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 5.4° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Van’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 7°41′ (moves 0.06° 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 Van turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresGemini 21°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Van feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCancer 19°53′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Van is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 3°35′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Van needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°16′ (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 Van 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.
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
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°).
Van’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Van is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Van’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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 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 quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Van Cliburn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Van’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Van Cliburn, 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
Van’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q366355, 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 Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Van Cliburn 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.
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Quick answers about Van Cliburn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Van Cliburn?
- Van Cliburn was a Cancer: born July 12, 1934, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Van Cliburn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1934 birth.
- What time was Van Cliburn 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 was Van Cliburn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1934 birth date.
- What was Van Cliburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1934 birth date.
- Where was Van Cliburn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Van Cliburn's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
