George Will
George Will (born May 4, 1941, Champaign, United States), aged 85, is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. Will's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Francis Boyer Award and James Madison Medal.
George Will’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with George
George Will’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
George ranked 13th among boys and 667th among girls in 1941, the year of this birth, with 19,260 American boys and 113 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 George apart
George Will took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977, at 36.
The classrooms behind this chart: Magdalen College and Trinity College.
On the family side, George Will was married Mari Maseng.
Wikipedia's editors put George Will under Baseball writers, American broadcast news analysts and National Review people.
Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Magdalen College, Trinity College and University Laboratory High School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1977), Francis Boyer Award (1995) and James Madison Medal (1992)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of George is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, George needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What George needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. George creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: George is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. George is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. George goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 George Will
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Champaign 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 Champaign that night
Computed for 40.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Champaign was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Champaign at all: they sit past the −49.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 56% lit at first quarter.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
6-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Venus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
George Will's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
George Will was born on May 4, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
George Will's birth date, May 4, 1941, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Will's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Nine of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- George Will combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Leo 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
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
George’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.2° to 0.4° orb
George’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
George’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.4° to 5.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed9 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 26°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 8°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°37′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus15 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
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Fellow Taurus suns
- José MujicaUruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
- Barbra StreisandAmerican singer and actress
- Eva PerónArgentine actress and politician
Born in Snake years
- Amal ClooneyLebanese-British-French barrister and human right activist
- Jess MarianoWaiter at Luke's Cafe
- Rachel ZeglerAmerican actress
Also born on May 4
- Audrey Hepburn1929
- Fernandinho1985
- George Tupou V of Tonga1948
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- PrestonPlayz1994
- Will Arnett1970
Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Carrie CoonAmerican actress
- Stephen CollettiAmerican actor
Other Taurus Snake charts
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Other Tidal Guardians
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
George’s cards
Computed from May 4, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1270178 (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 from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Will at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Will.
Quick answers about George Will’s chart
- How old is George Will?
- George Will is 85 years old, born May 4, 1941 in Champaign, United States.
- What zodiac sign is George Will?
- George Will is a Taurus: born May 4, 1941, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is George Will's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1941 birth.
- What is George Will's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is George Will's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is George Will's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is George Will's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
