Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born June 22, 1906, Sucha Beskidzka, Poland; died 2002), was an Austrian and American filmmaker. Wilder is best remembered for Stalag 17, The Fortune Cookie and Ace in the Hole. Wilder's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Picture and BAFTA Award for Best Film.
Billy Wilder’s zodiac sign was Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Billy
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
Billy ranked 646th in 1906, the year of this birth, with 14 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Billy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
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
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Flame orange
The record
What sets Billy apart
Meryl Streep (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Billy, according to the stars
How Billy wants to be loved
Billy wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Billy openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Billy creates
How Billy makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Billy creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Billy is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Billy is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Billy does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Billy's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Billy Wilder
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sucha Beskidzka 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 Sucha Beskidzka that night
Computed for 49.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sucha Beskidzka was Edasich, in Draco, 79.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Sucha Beskidzka sits at 49.7°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sucha Beskidzka on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Billy's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Gemini or Cancer Sun
Billy Wilder was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Billy Wilder was born on June 22, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Billy Wilder's birth date, June 22, 1906, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Billy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Billy Wilder's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs.
Billy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 7.3° orb
Billy’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
Billy’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Billy’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.8° to 1.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus6.2° to 7.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.4° to 6.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Billy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°14′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 1°04′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 19°57′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.5°
Billy’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Billy’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
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Born in Poland
- Maria Göppert MayerGerman-born American theoretical physicist
- Isidor Isaac RabiAmerican physicist
- Jacob BurckPolish-born Jewish-American painter & sculptor
- Tadeusz ReichsteinPolish-Swiss chemist
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- Gerhard DomagkGerman bacteriologist
More charts like Billy’s
Born in Horse years
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Also born on June 22
- Meryl Streep1949
- Cyndi Lauper1953
- Madeleine Vionnet1876
- Lee Min-ho1987
- Adam Schiff1960
- Johnny Devenanzio1982
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Chris LaneAmerican country music singer
- Jay ManuelCanadian make-up artist
- Johnny McDaidIrish musician, songwriter and music producer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Arthur RubinsteinPolish-American classical pianist
- Rudolf SerkinBohemian-born American pianist
- Smokey RobinsonAmerican R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Billy’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1906. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51547 (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 Foto: Galerie Poll Berlin / Ausschnitt: Christoph Waghubinger (Lewenstein), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Billy Wilder at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Wilder.
Quick answers about Billy Wilder’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Billy Wilder?
- Billy Wilder was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Billy Wilder's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1906 birth.
- What was Billy Wilder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Billy Wilder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Billy Wilder's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Billy Wilder's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
