Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, United States; died 1983), was an American playwright. Williams is best remembered for The Rose Tattoo, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. Williams's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Play and Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Tennessee Williams’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Tennessee Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Tennessee in the U.S.?
#4974
US rank in 2025
~1,367
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Tennessee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tennessee, according to the stars
Core essence
Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Tennessee needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Tennessee needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Tennessee wants to be loved
Tennessee 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 Tennessee is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Tennessee creates
How Tennessee makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Tennessee creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Tennessee 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Tennessee 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Tennessee goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Tennessee's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tennessee sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Tennessee Williams in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Tennessee Williams's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Tennessee Williams's birth date, March 26, 1911, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Tennessee’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tennessee Williams' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Tennessee Williams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Tennessee’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tennessee Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aquarius 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.
stableMercurysextileMars1.2° to 2.5° orb
Tennessee’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb
Tennessee’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
Tennessee’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb
Tennessee’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussquareUranus4.1° to 5.2° orb
Tennessee’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.6° orb
Tennessee’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.2° orb
Tennessee’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.9° orb
Tennessee’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.3° orb
Tennessee’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.6° orb
Tennessee’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.6° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Tennessee’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Tennessee absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Tennessee is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 5°41′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Tennessee is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°03′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Tennessee is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Tennessee leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Ceres square Mars 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.9°
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°).
Tennessee’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. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Tennessee is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Tennessee’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tennessee Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Tennessee
Bernard Katz was born on March 26, 1911 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Tennessee’s cards
Every card is computed from March 26, 1911, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tennessee 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
Tennessee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q134262, 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 Orlando Fernandez, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tennessee Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tennessee Williams.
Quick answers about Tennessee Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Tennessee Williams?
- Tennessee Williams was an Aries: born March 26, 1911, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- What was Tennessee Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1911 birth.
- What time was Tennessee 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 Tennessee Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1911 birth date.
- What was Tennessee Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1911 birth date.
- Where was Tennessee Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Tennessee Williams's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
