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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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.
C. K. Williams’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where C. K. Williams sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads 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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
C. K. Williams was born on November 4, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
C. K. Williams's birth date, November 4, 1936, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in C. K. Williams’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in C. K. Williams' date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- C. K. Williams combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
C. K. Williams’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for C. K. Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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.
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
C. K. Williams’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 4.5° orb
C. K. Williams’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.4° to 4.4° orb
C. K. Williams’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.1° to 5.8° orb
C. K. Williams’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.2° orb
C. K. Williams’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.0° orb
C. K. Williams’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.7° to 5.9° orb
C. K. Williams’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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 ℞Gemini 22°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has C. K. Williams turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. C. K. Williams is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio or Sagittarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. C. K. Williams is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°46′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. C. K. Williams is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. C. K. Williams is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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°).
C. K. Williams’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. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: C. K. Williams is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 C. K. Williams’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.
T-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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for C. K. Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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C. K. Williams’s cards
Every card is computed from November 4, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for C. K. Williams, 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
C. K. Williams’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2930440, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was C. K. Williams 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 C. K. Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 4, 1936 birth date.
- What was C. K. Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 4, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
