Jesse Lynch Williams
Jesse Lynch Williams (born August 17, 1871, Sterling, United States; died 1929), was an American dramatist. Williams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Jesse Lynch Williams’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jesse
Jesse Lynch Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jesse in the U.S.?
#184
US rank in 2025
~444,920
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
The earliest American count for Jesse is 1880, 9 years on: 28th among boys and 877th among girls, 569 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jesse’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jesse’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Jesse apart
Robert De Niro (1943) and Herta Müller (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jesse, according to the stars
Core essence
Jesse is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jesse is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Jesse is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Jesse needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Jesse wants to be loved
Jesse wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Jesse gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Jesse creates
How Jesse makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jesse 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: Jesse is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jesse 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jesse runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Jesse's birth date. Working below.
Where Jesse sits
Six lines
Jesse’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sterling 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 Sterling that night
Computed for 41.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sterling was Vega, in Lyra, 86.8° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.8°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 Sterling at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at new moon.
How unusual Jesse's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Jesse Lynch Williams's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 17, 1871, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatArtist first, everything second.
Jesse Lynch Williams was born on August 17, 1871, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Jesse Lynch Williams's birth date, August 17, 1871, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jesse’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jesse Lynch Williams' date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jesse Lynch Williams combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Jesse’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Jesse’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.2° to 0.8° orb
Jesse’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.9° to 2.0° orb
Jesse’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.6° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.8° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jesse’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 12°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 23°52′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 26°12′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
Jesse’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jesse’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
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- Herta Müller1953
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Jesse’s cards
Computed from August 17, 1871. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jesse’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1688174 (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 Hall's Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jesse Lynch Williams at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Jesse Lynch Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jesse Lynch Williams?
- Jesse Lynch Williams was a Leo: born August 17, 1871, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jesse Lynch Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 17, 1871 birth.
- What was Jesse Lynch Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jesse Lynch Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jesse Lynch Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jesse Lynch Williams's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
