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, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Hank
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.?
#413
US rank in 2025
~16,984
Americans share it since 1908
2025
its peak year
In 1923, 16 American boys were registered Hank — 2,060th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1923, 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 Hank apart
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came in 1987, when Hank Williams was 64.
Hank Williams was taught at Sidney Lanier High School.
Hank Williams was 14 when the work began in 1937.
The record gives drug overdose as the cause, and Oakwood Annex Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married Audrey Williams and Billie Jean Jones and raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Baptists from Alabama, Drug-related deaths in West Virginia and Alcohol-related deaths in West Virginia.
Narendra Modi (1950) and Slayyyter (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Sidney Lanier High School
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987) and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (2010)
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- drug overdose
- Buried at
- Oakwood Annex Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 69
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. Working below.
Where Hank sits
Six lines
Hank’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 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.
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 Hank Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive that night
Computed for 33.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Mount Olive at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
Mount Olive sits at 33.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 57% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Mount Olive, United States
The death is recorded at Oak Hill, Fayette County in 1953.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hank Williams: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hank's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
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
stableMarssextilePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.0° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.3° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 26°48′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°07′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 9°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Eros square Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.5°
Hank’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Hank’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.6°
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More charts like Hank’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Julian BlackmonAmerican football defensive back
- Zamir WhiteAmerican football running back
- Juwan JohnsonAmerican football player
Born in Pig years
- Ogbonnia OkoronkwoAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Deebo SamuelAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Eddy PineiroAmerican football player (born 1995)
Also born on September 17
- Narendra Modi1950
- Slayyyter1996
- Chuck Grassley1933
- Danielle Brooks1989
- Nate Berkus1971
- Andrew East1991
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Lauren LondonAmerican actress, model, and television personality
- Coco AustinAmerican model
- YGAmerican rapper and actor
Other Virgo Pig charts
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- Drew AfualoAmerican influencer, podcaster, and author
- Zach JusticeAmerican podcaster
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniQatari politician; prime minister and foreign minister
Other Tidal Explorers
- Ryan RollinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Fred VanVleetAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jaime Jaquez Jr.Mexican-American basketball player
- Scotty Pippen Jr.American basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Johnny CarsonAmerican talk show host and comedian
- Harry BelafonteAmerican singer, actor and civil rights activist
- Victor BorgeDanish comedian and pianist
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Hank’s cards
Computed from September 17, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206181 (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 WSM radio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hank Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Hank Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hank Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
