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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Bill Keller, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Virgo 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.
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
Bill’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb
Bill’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb
Bill’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.3° to 5.1° orb
Bill’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.0° to 6.1° orb
Bill’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 5°59′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Bill building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 22°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Bill is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°19′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Bill attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 16°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Bill is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Bill is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ 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
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 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 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 biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bill Keller, 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 January 18, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Bill Keller, 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 Q862237, 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 Hunter Kahn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bill Keller at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- 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 time was Bill Keller 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 Keller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 18, 1949 birth date.
- What is Bill Keller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 18, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
