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Bill Ackman

Bill Ackman (born May 11, 1966, Chappaqua, United States), aged 60, is an American billionaire hedge fund manager (born 1966).

Bill Ackman’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Bill Ackman’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#5235

US rank in 2025

~161,190

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

In 1966, 1,556 American boys and 8 girls were registered Bill — 173rd among boys and 4,904th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bill’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

11

Soul Urge · insight

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on L (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

Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Blush · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Bill apart

Bill Ackman was taught at Horace Greeley High School and Harvard College.

The family line: born to Lawrence D. Ackman and married Neri Oxman.

Salvador Dalí (1904) and Richard Feynman (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Horace Greeley High School, Harvard College and Harvard Business School
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and American English
Wikipedia editions
20

What the chart says

Bill, according to the stars

Core essence

Bill is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Bill is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Bill needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Bill needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Bill wants to be loved

Bill wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Bill creates

How Bill makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Bill creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Bill is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Bill is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Bill is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Bill's birth date. Working below.

Where Bill sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Bill

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bill

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

PrivateExpressive
Bill

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bill

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Bill

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bill

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chappaqua on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Bill’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 78.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chappaqua that night

Computed for 41.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Chappaqua at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.

Chappaqua sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chappaqua on any night.

The Moon was at last quarter, 54% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Chappaqua, United States
Lives in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Bill Ackman's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bill Ackman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Bill's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Taurus · No Air planets

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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The quick version

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Bill Ackman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 11, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Bill Ackman was born on May 11, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Nervy, gifted, tuned high.

Bill Ackman's birth date, May 11, 1966, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Bill’s chart

Bill’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.3° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.7° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.2° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Taurus · 20°30′☉20°Moon in Aquarius · 11°39′☽11°Mercury in Taurus · 3°39′☿3°Venus in Aries · 7°11′♀7°Mars in Taurus · 17°34′♂17°Jupiter in Cancer · 1°10′♃1°Saturn in Pisces · 26°47′♄26°Uranus in Virgo · 15°33′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Scorpio · 20°49′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Virgo · 15°52′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Bill’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.3° orb

    Bill’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarstrinePluto1.3° to 2.1° orb

    Bill’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.7° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.5° to 5.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 25°14′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°57′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 16°54′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Sun 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.7°

Bill’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Bill’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Bill’s cards

Computed from May 11, 1966. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1586871 (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 Bill Ackman.

Quick answers about Bill Ackman’s chart

How old is Bill Ackman?
Bill Ackman is 60 years old, born May 11, 1966 in Chappaqua, United States.
What zodiac sign is Bill Ackman?
Bill Ackman is a Taurus: born May 11, 1966, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Bill Ackman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 11, 1966 birth.
What is Bill Ackman's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Bill Ackman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Bill Ackman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bill Ackman's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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