Bill Dedman
Bill Dedman (born October 14, 1960, Chattanooga, United States), aged 65, is an American journalist. Dedman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and Worth Bingham Prize.
Bill Dedman’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Bill Dedman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Bill, according to the stars
Core essence
Bill makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Bill is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Bill needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Bill needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Bill wants to be loved
Bill wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Bill even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Bill creates
How Bill makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Bill creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Bill 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Bill is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Bill does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Bill's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bill sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Bill Dedman's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Bill Dedman was born on October 14, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Bill Dedman's birth date, October 14, 1960, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Dedman's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bill Dedman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Bill’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bill Dedman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Bill’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.6° to 2.0° orb
Bill’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.3° to 2.7° orb
Bill’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus2.8° to 4.0° orb
Bill’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
Bill’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
Bill’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssextilePluto3.2° to 3.5° orb
Bill’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Bill’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° orb
Bill’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineMars4.9° to 5.6° orb
Bill’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Bill’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.3° to 5.5° orb
Bill’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Bill’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 27°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Bill making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Bill is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCancer 27°23′ (moves 0.91° 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. Bill is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 12°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Bill is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°44′ (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 Bill 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.
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°
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°).
Bill’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Bill is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Bill’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bill Dedman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Bill’s cards
Every card is computed from October 14, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bill Dedman, 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
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4908736, 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.
The same Bill Dedman at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bill Dedman.
Quick answers about Bill Dedman’s chart
- How old is Bill Dedman?
- Bill Dedman is 65 years old, born October 14, 1960 in Chattanooga, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Dedman?
- Bill Dedman is a Libra: born October 14, 1960, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Bill Dedman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1960 birth.
- What time was Bill Dedman 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 is Bill Dedman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 14, 1960 birth date.
- What is Bill Dedman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 14, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Bill Dedman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Dedman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
