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Bill English

Bill English (born December 30, 1961, Lumsden, New Zealand), aged 64, is Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017. English has held office as Minister of Health and Minister of Finance. English's honours include Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, honorary doctor of the University of Otago and honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington.

Bill English’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Bill English’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Ivory · 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 is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Bill is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Bill cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Bill needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Bill wants to be loved

Bill wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Bill you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Bill creates

How Bill makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Bill creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Bill is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Bill is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Bill does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Bill's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bill sits

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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
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You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bill

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Bill English

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

Bill’s birth-night reference starAcamarwhite · EridanusAcamar, in Eridanus. A white star, 84.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Acamar →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 16.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Bill English's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 30, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Bill English was born on December 30, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Bill English's birth date, December 30, 1961, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Bill’s chart

Bill’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Bill English, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.8° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.3° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.7° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 8°03′☉8°Moon in Libra · 6°15′☽6°Mercury in Capricorn · 15°58′☿15°Venus in Capricorn · 1°15′♀1°Mars in Capricorn · 3°58′♂3°Jupiter in Aquarius · 10°01′♃10°Saturn in Capricorn · 29°27′♄29°Uranus in Virgo · 0°17′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Scorpio · 12°54′♆12°Pluto in Virgo · 10°03′ · retrograde♇℞10°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Bill’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSuntrinePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb

    Bill’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.3° to 3.9° orb

    Bill’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars2.5° to 3.0° orb

    Bill’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb

    Bill’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

    Bill’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.3° to 4.1° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMars4.0° to 4.2° orb

    Bill’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.1° to 6.7° orb

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

  • stableMarstrinePluto5.7° to 6.5° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb

    Bill’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth7 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 2°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Bill absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 12°41′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Bill is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 5°26′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Bill is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Bill is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Bill exacting with themselves first.

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.

  • Ceres opposition Neptune 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 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. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Bill is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, SaturnThree 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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.0°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.8°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bill English, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Bill’s cards

Every card is computed from December 30, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Bill English, 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 Q4384608, 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 Flickr user New Zealand Tertiary Education Union., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bill English at Wikipedia, national.org.nz, Instagram and X.

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 English.

Quick answers about Bill English’s chart

How old is Bill English?
Bill English is 64 years old, born December 30, 1961 in Lumsden, New Zealand.
What zodiac sign is Bill English?
Bill English is a Capricorn: born December 30, 1961, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
What is Bill English's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 30, 1961 birth.
What time was Bill English 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 English's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 30, 1961 birth date.
What is Bill English's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 30, 1961 birth date.
Where is Bill English's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bill English's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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