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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Billy Wilder, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
Billy’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.8° to 1.0° orb
Billy’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.0° orb
Billy’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Billy’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 6.6° orb
Billy’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.3° orb
Billy’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.2° to 7.2° orb
Billy’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.4° to 6.6° orb
Billy’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.1° orb
Billy’s core identity and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Billy making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°14′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Billy is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 1°04′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Billy loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 19°57′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Billy is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Billy is read as immovable on those points.
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 conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.5°
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°).
Billy’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Billy is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Billy’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 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.
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Billy Wilder, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Billy’s cards
Every card is computed from June 22, 1906, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Billy Wilder, 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
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51547, 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 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. 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.
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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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- 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 time was Billy Wilder 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 was Billy Wilder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 22, 1906 birth date.
- What was Billy Wilder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 22, 1906 birth date.
- 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.
