Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937, New York City, United States), aged 89, is an American actor (born 1937). Williams's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Billy Dee Williams’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Billy
Billy Dee Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Billy in the U.S.?
#1068
US rank in 2025
~389,665
Americans share it since 1880
1934
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1937, Billy came 22nd among boys and 735th among girls, carried by 8,301 American boys and 85 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Billy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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 1937, 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 Billy apart
Billy Dee Williams took the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1984, at 47.
Training came by way of High School of Performing Arts and High School of Music & Art.
The working life starts in 1959, at 22.
On the family side, Billy Dee Williams was married Teruko Nakagami.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Billy Dee Williams: American people of Montserratian descent, Novelists from New York City and African-American novelists.
The same date carries Merle Haggard. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- High School of Performing Arts, High School of Music & Art and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1984)
- Working from
- 1959
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 41
What the chart says
Billy, according to the stars
Core essence
Billy leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Billy is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Billy needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Billy needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Billy wants to be loved
Billy wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Billy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Billy creates
How Billy makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Billy creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Billy 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Billy is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Billy 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 Billy's birth date. Working below.
Where Billy sits
Six lines
Billy’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Billy Dee Williams
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 3.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 22% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Billy Dee Williams's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Billy Dee Williams: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Billy's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mercury · No Air 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Billy Dee Williams's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 6, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Billy Dee Williams was born on April 6, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Billy Dee Williams's birth date, April 6, 1937, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Billy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Billy Dee Williams' date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Billy Dee Williams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Billy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Aquarius 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
stableSaturntrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Billy’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Billy’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.9° to 3.8° orb
Billy’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.3° to 5.6° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.4° to 5.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.2° to 4.6° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 6.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.7° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 4.8° to 18.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 5.8° to 19.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryconjunctionUranusorb from 8.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Billy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°55′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 2°32′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°04′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 20°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.3°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 2.6°
Billy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Billy’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryAn 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 biquintile Mars 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
Born the same day as Billy
Merle Haggard was born on April 6, 1937 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Billy
Other screenwriters
- Anthony Hopkins1937
- Gary Lockwood1937
- Halit Akçatepe1938
- David Newman1937
- Larry Niven1938
- Vanessa Redgrave1937
Born in United States
- Roger ZelaznyU.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet
- Robert CampbellAmerican architect and writer
- Patrick George RyanAmerican businessman
- Warren BeattyAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Morgan FreemanAmerican actor and producer
- David Del TrediciAmerican composer
More charts like Billy’s
Fellow Aries suns
- William SadlerAmerican actor (born 1950)
- James CaanAmerican actor
- Claudia CardinaleItalian actress
Born in Ox years
- Richard Mofe DamijoNigerian politician and actor
- Phyllis HymanAmerican rhythm-and-blues singer
- Kevin ParkerAustralian musician
Also born on April 6
- James Watson1928
- Paul Rudd1969
- Zach Braff1975
- Todd Chrisley1969
- Marilu Henner1952
- Shaheen Afridi2000
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Abigail HeringerAmerican reality television participant
- Ryan GuzmanAmerican actor
- Evan HandlerAmerican actor
Other Aries Ox charts
- Pharrell WilliamsAmerican record producer and songwriter
- Yanis VaroufakisGreek economist and politician
- Rooney MaraAmerican actress
- Jonathan GroffAmerican actor and singer
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Johannes StarkGerman physicist
- David Del TrediciAmerican composer
- Quinto MaganiniAmerican conductor, composer and musicologist
- Edward P. JonesAmerican novelist, short story writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Noah CentineoAmerican actor
- Vin DieselAmerican actor (born 1967)
- Drea de MatteoAmerican actress (born 1972)
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Billy’s cards
Computed from April 6, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q358345 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Billy Dee Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Billy Dee Williams.
Quick answers about Billy Dee Williams’s chart
- How old is Billy Dee Williams?
- Billy Dee Williams is 89 years old, born April 6, 1937 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Billy Dee Williams?
- Billy Dee Williams is an Aries: born April 6, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Billy Dee Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 6, 1937 birth.
- What is Billy Dee Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Billy Dee Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Billy Dee Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Billy Dee Williams's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
