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Capricorn · by personality

Cult movies · FBI trainee

Clarice Starling: zodiac sign and birth chart

Clarice Starling has no canon birthday in the films, so her chart is read from her personality. She's a Capricorn: the FBI trainee who climbs out of a poor childhood one rung at a time and looks Hannibal Lecter in the eye because the job needs it. A Cancer Moon and Mars carry the lambs she never stopped hearing. Scorpio rising gives her that steady, unreadable stare.

  • SunCapricorn
  • MoonCancer
  • RisingScorpio
  • MercurySagittarius
  • VenusSagittarius
  • MarsCancer
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SourceNo canon birthday: The Silence of the Lambs and the other films never give Clarice a date. The chart is NEBO's take, read from her personality.

Birth chart

Clarice's chart at a glance

No canon birthday, so this is NEBO's take, read from her character.

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  • Fire2
  • Earth1
  • Air0
  • Water3
  • Mostly water. 3 of her 6 placements are water signs.
  • About 1 in 20 birthdays get Clarice in the app's Cult movies world.
  • Other Capricorns here: Rocky Balboa and Ellen Ripley.

NEBO's take

No birthday in canon. Her personality says Capricorn.

We ran Clarice through the same model that matches people to characters in the app, and looked at which chart gets her most often. It reads her as earth on top and water underneath: ambitious and disciplined, driven by something she has carried since she was a kid.

Canon

No canon birthdayNever given in the films

NEBO's take

Capricorn SunRead from her personality
  • Sun CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeCapricorn

    Capricorn earns everything the hard way. We meet her alone, running the Quantico training course in the woods, before anyone has even told her what the job is.

  • Moon CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeCancer

    A Cancer Moon doesn't forget who needed help. She tells Lecter about waking up to the lambs screaming, and that the sound hasn't really stopped.

  • Rising CanonNo birth timeNEBO's takeScorpio

    No birth time in canon. First impression: small in an elevator full of taller men in the FBI building, staring straight ahead, giving them nothing.

  • Mercury CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeSagittarius

    Sagittarius Mercury aims straight at the target. She tells Lecter he sees a lot, then asks if he can turn that perception on himself.

  • Venus CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeSagittarius

    Sagittarius Venus keeps its independence. Lecter gets closer than anyone, but it stays a trade: a piece of her past for a clue, and then she's out the door.

  • Mars CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeCancer

    Cancer Mars fights for the vulnerable. A senator's daughter is missing and the clock is running, and Clarice keeps pulling the thread on her own.

What the films do give: a trainee nobody in the room expects much from, who keeps doing the work anyway. A Capricorn answer is to outlast the room and get the job done properly.

How she shows up

Why she's like this

Capricorn is the sign of discipline, ambition and climbing with your teeth clenched. Clarice does exactly that in scenes people still quote, in The Silence of the Lambs.

  • CoreCapricorn Sun

    Already on the course

    The movie opens with her alone on the Quantico training course, pulling herself up a rope and running hard through the woods. Then she's called in to see Jack Crawford.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  • First impressionScorpio rising

    Holds his stare

    First visit to Lecter's cell. He reads her cheap shoes and her accent and takes her whole background apart in a few lines. She takes all of it and doesn't fold.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  • MindMercury in Sagittarius

    Hits back with a question

    He picks apart the FBI questionnaire she brought, so she turns it around and asks if he's "strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself." He comes back at her harder, and she stays in the chair.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  • In a fightMars in Cancer

    Clears the room

    At a West Virginia funeral home, a roomful of deputies stands around a victim's body. She asks them to leave, firmly, so the woman can be examined with some respect. They go.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  • FeelingsCancer Moon

    The lambs

    This is the price of Lecter's help: on a relative's ranch in Montana, a young Clarice woke to the lambs screaming, grabbed one and ran. She couldn't save it, and she still wakes up hearing them.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · spoiler

  • CoreCapricorn Sun

    Finishes the job

    She ends up alone in Buffalo Bill's basement in the dark while he watches her through night-vision goggles. She hears his gun cock, fires and stops him, and Catherine Martin gets out alive.

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · spoiler

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Chemistry

Who Clarice clicks with, and who she clashes with

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Similar charts

Who else has Clarice's chart

Clarice in real life

Only one name in the app's cast so far: Wonyoung, a Virgo Sun, which at least stays in Clarice's earth element.

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Characters like Clarice

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Questions

Clarice's zodiac sign: what people ask

What zodiac sign is Clarice Starling?

The films never say. They give Clarice no birthday. By personality, NEBO's take is Capricorn.

When is Clarice Starling's birthday?

The films never give a date for her.

Is Clarice Starling a Capricorn?

By personality, yes: disciplined, ambitious and willing to outwork a room that doesn't rate her. It's NEBO's take, not canon, because the films give no birthday.

What is Clarice Starling's birth chart?

NEBO's take: Sun in Capricorn, Moon and Mars in Cancer, Scorpio rising, Mercury and Venus in Sagittarius. It's read from her personality, not from a canon date.

What element is Clarice?

Earth. Capricorn is an earth sign.

Who is Clarice most compatible with?

By chart, Dom Cobb, Tyler Durden and Lisbeth Salander. Cancer Moon and Pisces Moon: they calm down the same way, no translation needed.

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