Hank Williams
Hank Williams (born September 17, 1923, Mount Olive, United States; died 1953), was an American singer-songwriter. Williams's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
Hank Williams’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Hank Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Hank in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~16,984
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
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Hank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Hank, according to the stars
Core essence
Hank notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Hank is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Hank wants to be loved
Hank wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Hank and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Hank creates
How Hank makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hank creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Hank is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Hank is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Hank 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 Hank's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Hank sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Hank Williams's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 17, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Hank Williams was born on September 17, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Hank Williams's birth date, September 17, 1923, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Hank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hank Williams' date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hank Williams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Hank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hank Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Hank’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Hank’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.6° to 0.9° orb
Hank’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.3° to 1.5° orb
Hank’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextilePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb
Hank’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.1° orb
Hank’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrinePluto3.0° orb
Hank’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
Hank’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Hank’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.3° to 5.0° orb
Hank’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.0° orb
Hank’s mind and discipline act as one.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hank’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 ℞Aries 19°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Hank may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Hank is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 26°48′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Hank is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°07′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Hank needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 9°07′ (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. Hank 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.
- Chiron opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Eros square Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.5°
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°).
Hank’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Hank is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Hank’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 Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hank Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Hank’s cards
Every card is computed from September 17, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Hank 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
Hank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206181, 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 WSM radio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hank Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hank Williams.
Quick answers about Hank Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hank Williams?
- Hank Williams was a Virgo: born September 17, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Hank Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 17, 1923 birth.
- What time was Hank 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 Hank Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 17, 1923 birth date.
- What was Hank Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 17, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Hank Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hank Williams's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
