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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Jesse’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Jesse Lynch Williams in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Jesse Lynch Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Virgo 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.
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
Jesse’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 1.7° orb
Jesse’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
Jesse’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 4.9° orb
Jesse’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus4.3° to 4.8° orb
Jesse’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.6° orb
Jesse’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
Jesse’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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 10°54′ (moves 0.03° 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: Jesse may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 12°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Jesse is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLibra 23°52′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Jesse is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 26°12′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Jesse is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Jesse that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
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°).
Jesse’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Jesse is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Jesse’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jesse Lynch Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jesse’s cards
Every card is computed from August 17, 1871, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jesse Lynch 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
Jesse’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1688174, 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 Hall's Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jesse Lynch Williams at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- 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 time was Jesse Lynch 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 Jesse Lynch Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 17, 1871 birth date.
- What was Jesse Lynch Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 17, 1871 birth date.
- 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.
