John Williams
John Williams (born April 15, 1903, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; died 1983), was an English actor. Williams's honours include Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Donaldson Awards.
John Williams’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
John Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1903, John came 1st among boys and 499th among girls, carried by 7,608 American boys and 41 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (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
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, 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 John apart
John Williams took the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1953, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: Lancing College.
The working life starts in 1916, at 13.
Cause of death is recorded as disease.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Williams: Actors from Chiltern District, People educated at Lancing College and Male actors from Buckinghamshire.
Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lancing College
- Awards
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1953)
- Working from
- 1916
- Cause of death
- disease
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of John is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How John wants to be loved
John 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 John is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. John 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: John is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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
Dedicate a star to John Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire that night
Computed for 51.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buckinghamshire was Merak, in Ursa Major, 83.5° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Buckinghamshire sits at 51.8°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Buckinghamshire on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 85% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at La Jolla, San Diego in 1983.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Williams: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · Mars retrograde
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
John Williams's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
John Williams was born on April 15, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
John Williams's birth date, April 15, 1903, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Williams' date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- John Williams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
John’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 2.5° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.8° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.5° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.7° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 22°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 15°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 0°46′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°57′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 18°01′ (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 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.4°
- Eros square Mars 0.5°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.2°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 1 major aspect
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.1°
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
John’s cards
Computed from April 15, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q921945 (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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Williams at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Williams.
Quick answers about John Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Williams?
- John Williams was an Aries: born April 15, 1903, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was John Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1903 birth.
- What was John Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Williams's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
