Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949, Palo Alto, United States), aged 77, is an American journalist. Keller's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Bill Keller’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Bill
Bill Keller’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 2,765 American boys and 9 girls named Bill in 1949: 106th among boys and 3,645th among girls 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
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
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Bill apart
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) 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 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 is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Bill needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Bill creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Bill is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Bill goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Keller
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto that night
Computed for 37.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Palo Alto was Menkib, in Perseus, 80.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Palo Alto sits at 37.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Palo Alto at all: they sit past the −52.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 76% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Bill's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Water 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.
Score your own chart →Bill Keller at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Bill Keller's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Bill Keller was born on January 18, 1949, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Bill Keller's birth date, January 18, 1949, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Keller's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
- Bill Keller combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Bill’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Virgo 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
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
Bill’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Bill’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
Bill’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.9° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.3° to 5.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.0° to 6.1° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.4° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenusconjunctionJupiterorb from 7.2° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Bill’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 5°59′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 22°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°19′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 16°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
Bill’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Bill’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
More people like Bill
Other journalists
- Linda Greenhouse1947
- David Horsey1951
- Stephen Kurkjian1943
- Bob Sipchen1953
- Anthony R. Dolan1948
- Louis Kilzer1951
Born in United States
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- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist, chronobiologist
- John BoltonAmerican lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)
- Ron WydenAmerican politician and educator (born 1949)
- Lawrence KasdanAmerican film director and film producer
- Christopher RouseAmerican composer
More charts like Bill’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Tavius RobinsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jermaine JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Wan'Dale RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2001)
Born in Rat years
- Michel AebischerSwiss association football player
- Orbelín PinedaMexican association football player (born 1996)
- Sofyan AmrabatMoroccan-Dutch association football player (born 1996)
Also born on January 18
- Kevin Costner1955
- Paul Keating1944
- Jason Segel1980
- Jay Chou1979
- Jonathan Davis1971
- Emil Audero Mulyadi1997
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- JaySouth Korean-American singer and rapper
- Caleb WilsonAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
- Milos UzanAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Capricorn Rat charts
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- Patrick PentzAustrian association football player
- Gonzalo MontielArgentinian association football player
- Issa DiopMoroccan footballer
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Elisabeth MossBritish-American actress and producer
- Emily RatajkowskiAmerican model and actress
- Ezra MillerAmerican actor
- Ratan TataIndian industrialist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Francisco TrincãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Jean-Philippe MatetaFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Jordan HendersonEnglish association football player (born 1990)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Bill’s cards
Computed from January 18, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q862237 (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.
Portrait by Hunter Kahn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bill Keller at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bill Keller.
Quick answers about Bill Keller’s chart
- How old is Bill Keller?
- Bill Keller is 77 years old, born January 18, 1949 in Palo Alto, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Keller?
- Bill Keller is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1949, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Bill Keller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1949 birth.
- What is Bill Keller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bill Keller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bill Keller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Keller's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
