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Portrait of C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams (born November 4, 1936, Newark, United States; died 2015), was an American poet and critic. Williams is best remembered for Repair and Lies. Williams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

C. K. Williams’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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C. K. Williams’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What C. K. Williams’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on C (3) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

C. K. Williams’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets C. K. Williams apart

Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

C. K. Williams, according to the stars

Core essence

C. K. Williams does not do surface. The core of C. K. Williams is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from C. K. Williams is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How C. K. Williams wants to be loved

C. K. Williams wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with C. K. Williams and watch them fall for you again.

How C. K. Williams creates

How C. K. Williams makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. C. K. Williams creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: C. K. Williams 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. C. K. Williams is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means C. K. Williams channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from C. K. Williams's birth date. Working below.

Where C. K. Williams sits

Six lines

C. K. Williams’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
C. K. Williams

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
C. K. Williams

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
C. K. Williams

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
C. K. Williams

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
C. K. Williams

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
C. K. Williams

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to C. K. Williams

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newark on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

C. K. Williams’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 78° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 35.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Newark that night

Computed for 40.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Newark at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

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 Newark on any night.

Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 60% lit at last quarter.

How unusual C.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Venus · 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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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

C. K. Williams's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

C. K. Williams was born on November 4, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

C. K. Williams's birth date, November 4, 1936, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in C. K. Williams’s chart

C. K. Williams’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.8° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.4° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.7° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 12°06′☉12°Moon in Cancer · 25°48′☽25°Mercury in Scorpio · 3°43′☿3°Venus in Sagittarius · 15°17′♀15°Mars in Virgo · 24°02′♂24°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 24°10′♃24°Saturn in Pisces · 15°58′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Taurus · 7°24′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Virgo · 18°22′♆18°Pluto in Cancer · 28°45′ · retrograde♇℞28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb

    C. K. Williams’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.1° to 1.3° orb

    C. K. Williams’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.4° orb

    C. K. Williams’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.1° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.7° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

C. K. Williams’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 22°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio or Sagittarius during this date

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 14°46′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.2°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.5°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.7°

C. K. Williams’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in C. K. Williams’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Saturn, Neptune, VenusAn 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 semi-square Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°

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C. K. Williams’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1936. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

C. K. Williams’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2930440 (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 Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same C. K. Williams at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by C. K. Williams.

Quick answers about C. K. Williams’s chart

What zodiac sign was C. K. Williams?
C. K. Williams was a Scorpio: born November 4, 1936, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was C. K. Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1936 birth.
What was C. K. Williams's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was C. K. Williams's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was C. K. Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was C. K. Williams's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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