Bill Maher
Bill Maher (born William Maher; January 20, 1956, New York City, United States, 22:32), aged 70, is an American stand-up comedian and television host. Maher is best known for New Rules, Real Time with Bill Maher and Club Random. Maher's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bill Maher’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Bill
Bill Maher’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 1,957 American boys and 5 girls named Bill in 1956: 159th among boys and 6,033rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bill’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name William Maher, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Bill apart
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Evan Peters (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Bill, according to the stars
Core essence
Bill is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Bill is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Bill is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Bill needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Bill wants to be loved
Bill wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Bill, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Bill creates
How Bill makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Bill creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Bill has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Bill Maher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above New York City at 22:32, Bill Maher’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, at the documented birth time.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over New York City at the birth hour, 81.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 61° below the horizon, Moon up and 52% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- William Maher
- Known as
- Bill Maher
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lives in
- River Vale
Wikidata records River Vale as Bill Maher's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Bill's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽, The Debater 巨門 in 寅
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
Grand cross · 5 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →Bill Maher at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Bill Maher's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Bill Maher was born on January 20, 1956, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Bill Maher's birth date, January 20, 1956, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The Ascendant is Libra, from the documented birth time, with no planet in the four angular houses.
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Maher's timed chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Bill Maher combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Bill’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 0.1° orb
Bill’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 0.2° orb
Bill’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.3° orb
Bill’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussquareMarsapplying · 0.3° orb
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 0.4° orb
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 0.7° orb
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 1.0° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 1.7° orb
MoonsextileVenusapplying · 1.9° orb
MoonsquareUranusseparating · 2.1° orb
MoonoppositionNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb
SunsquareMoonseparating · 2.4° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
MoontrineJupiterseparating · 2.7° orb
SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 3.6° orb
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 3.9° orb
VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb
MarstrineUranusseparating · 4.3° orb
MoontrinePlutoseparating · 4.4° orb
SunsextileMarsapplying · 4.5° orb
VenusoppositionJupiterseparating · 4.6° orb
MarssquareJupiterseparating · 4.9° orb
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 6.3° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Bill’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°28′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°33′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 12°28′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 27°33′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°10′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.9°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Moon 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.8°
Bill’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon; 6 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Bill’s chart
Grand cross · Sun, Uranus, Moon, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mars · Venus, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Moon quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.1°
- Moon quincunx Mars 2.2°
Bill’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 11 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 11 | Mars, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 3 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 11 | Sun, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 2 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 5 | Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Bill’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q489 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bill Maher.
Quick answers about Bill Maher’s chart
- How old is Bill Maher?
- Bill Maher is 70 years old, born January 20, 1956 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Maher?
- Bill Maher is an Aquarius: born January 20, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Bill Maher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1956 birth.
- What time was Bill Maher born?
- 22:32 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Bill Maher's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 22:32 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Bill Maher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bill Maher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bill Maher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Maher's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon; 6 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
