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Bill Gates

Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, United States, 22:00), aged 70, is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Gates has served as chief executive officer. Gates's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of the Aztec Eagle and Padma Bhushan.

Bill Gates’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Bill Gates’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Crimson · Forest

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 does not do surface. The core of Bill is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Bill is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Bill runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Bill needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bill creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Bill is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Bill fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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

Where Bill sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Bill

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bill

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

PrivateExpressive
Bill

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bill

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Bill

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

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 sky

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Bill’s birth-sky starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 80.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 41.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Seattle at 22:00, the birth time on Bill Gates’s A-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Bill Gates's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Bill Gates's birth date, October 28, 1955, 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

Bill’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.5° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.8° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 6° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°02′ · house 5☉5°Moon in Aries · 8°15′ · house 10☽8°Mercury in Libra · 16°36′ · house 4☿16°Venus in Scorpio · 20°14′ · house 5♀20°Mars in Libra · 10°07′ · house 4♂10°Jupiter in Leo · 27°47′ · house 2♃27°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°35′ · house 5♄21°Uranus in Leo · 2°17′ · house 2♅2°Neptune in Libra · 28°14′ · house 4♆28°Pluto in Leo · 28°21′ · house 2♇28°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 26°58′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 26°58′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 4°52′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 4°52′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb

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

  • JupitersextileNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb

    Bill’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.6° orb

    Bill’s growth and depths act as one.

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb

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

  • MoonoppositionMarsapplying · 1.9° orb

    Bill’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • SunsquareUranusseparating · 2.8° orb

    Bill’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 4.0° orb

    Bill’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoontrineUranusseparating · 6.0° orb

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

  • JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 6.2° orb

    Bill’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 6.5° orb

    Bill’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 6.8° orb

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

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 6.8° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

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

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 0°20′ · House 8

    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.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°53′ · House 7

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Bill caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 6°41′ · House 4

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Bill is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 22°27′ · House 5

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

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Bill carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°50′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Bill leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.9°
  • Eros opposition Moon 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.0°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.5°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars8.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Bill is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, 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 sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°

Bill’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Aries, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Scorpio, house 5Jupiter, Uranus, Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Libra, house 4emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 5Mercury, Mars, Neptunehome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 2Sun, Venus, Saturncreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Leo, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Leo, house 2emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 4emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Libra, house 4Mooncareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 5emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Libra, house 4emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Bill’s family here

One relative of Bill Gates also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Bill’s cards

Every card is computed from October 28, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5284, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Bill Gates’s chart

How old is Bill Gates?
Bill Gates is 70 years old, born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, United States.
What zodiac sign is Bill Gates?
Bill Gates is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1955, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
What is Bill Gates's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1955 birth.
What time was Bill Gates born?
22:00 local time in Seattle, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Bill Gates's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 22:00 birth time in Seattle, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Bill Gates?
Bill Gates is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Bill Gates's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 28, 1955 birth date.
What is Bill Gates's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 28, 1955 birth time.
Where is Bill Gates's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bill Gates's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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