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Mark Williams

Mark Williams (born December 16, 2001, Norfolk, United States), aged 24, is an American basketball player (born 2001). Williams has played for Duke Blue Devils men's basketball.

Mark Williams’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Mark 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 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Mark in the U.S.?

#245

US rank in 2025

~1,366,672

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

Of the names registered in 2001, Mark came 84th among boys and 9,836th among girls, carried by 4,754 American boys and 10 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mark’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 M (4) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Mark’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · 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 2001, 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 Mark apart

Training came by way of Duke University.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Mark Williams: Basketball players from Norfolk, Virginia, Greensboro Swarm players and Charlotte Hornets draft picks.

The same date carries Kai Cenat and Sebastian Croft. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Duke University
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Mark, according to the stars

Core essence

Mark is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Mark is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Mark is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Mark needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Mark wants to be loved

Mark wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Mark and watch them fall for you again.

How Mark creates

How Mark makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Mark 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: Mark is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Mark is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Mark slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Mark's birth date. Working below.

Where Mark sits

Six lines

Mark’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Mark

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mark

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Mark

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mark

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Mark

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mark

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mark Williams

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norfolk on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Mark’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Norfolk that night

Computed for 36.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Norfolk at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 36.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −53.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norfolk on any night.

The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.

How unusual Mark's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A leaning bowl

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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Mark Williams in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Mark Williams's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 2001, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Mark Williams was born on December 16, 2001, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Mark Williams's birth date, December 16, 2001, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Mark’s chart

Mark’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.9° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.9° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.7° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 24°49′☉24°Moon in Capricorn · 16°38′☽16°Mercury in Capricorn · 1°23′☿1°Venus in Sagittarius · 17°55′♀17°Mars in Pisces · 5°41′♂5°Jupiter in Cancer · 12°41′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Gemini · 10°25′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Aquarius · 21°49′♅21°Neptune in Aquarius · 6°57′♆6°Pluto in Sagittarius · 15°28′♇15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.8° to 3.1° orb

    Mark’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb

    Mark’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb

    Mark’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.9° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.3° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.3° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.8° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 5.0° to 16.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarstrineJupiterorb from 6.6° to 7.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Mark’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 0°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 3°59′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 12°47′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 9°40′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 0.8°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.6°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 2.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 3.0°

Mark’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Mark’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quintile Mars 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°

Born the same day as Mark

3 other people here were born on December 16, 2001, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Norfolk sits at 36.8°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Mark’s cards

Computed from December 16, 2001. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mark’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97359395 (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 Hoop District, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mark Williams at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mark Williams.

Quick answers about Mark Williams’s chart

How old is Mark Williams?
Mark Williams is 24 years old, born December 16, 2001 in Norfolk, United States.
What zodiac sign is Mark Williams?
Mark Williams is a Sagittarius: born December 16, 2001, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Mark Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 2001 birth.
How tall is Mark Williams?
Mark Williams is 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Mark Williams's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Mark Williams's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Mark Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Mark Williams's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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