Bill Dedman
Bill Dedman (born October 14, 1960, Chattanooga, United States), aged 66, is an American journalist. Dedman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and Worth Bingham Prize.
Bill Dedman’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Bill
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
The SSA recorded 4,501 American boys named Bill in 1960: 95th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bill’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
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
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 record
What sets Bill apart
Usher (1978) and Ralph Lauren (1939) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Bill sits
Six lines
Bill’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Bill Dedman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chattanooga 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 Chattanooga that night
Computed for 35.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chattanooga at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Chattanooga sits at 35.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chattanooga on any night.
The Moon, 29% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual Bill's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.3° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.3° to 5.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 27°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°15′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 27°23′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 12°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Bill’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Bill’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°
More people like Bill
Other historians
- Jack N. Rakove1947
- Thomas K. McCraw1940
- David Kertzer1948
- David M. Kennedy1941
- Kai Bird1951
- Eric Foner1943
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 14
- Usher1978
- Ralph Lauren1939
- Arca1989
- Stacy Keibler1979
- Charlie Kirk1993
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Other Libra Rat charts
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Other Evergreen Pioneers
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- Alia BhattBritish actress
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Bill’s cards
Computed from October 14, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4908736 (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.
The same Bill Dedman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bill Dedman.
Quick answers about Bill Dedman’s chart
- How old is Bill Dedman?
- Bill Dedman is 66 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.
- 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 is Bill Dedman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bill Dedman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
