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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Tennessee
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
Tennessee ranked 1,778th in 1911, the year of this birth, with 9 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tennessee’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tennessee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Tennessee apart
The shelf Tennessee Williams is read from: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie.
Washington University in St. Louis and University City High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1930, at 19.
Cause of death is recorded as choking; the grave is at Calvary Cemetery.
The family line: born to Edwina Estelle Dakin and Cornelius Coffin Williams.
Wikipedia's editors put Tennessee Williams under American speculative fiction writers, Dramatists and playwrights from Mississippi and Deaths from choking.
The same date carries Bernard Katz. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie
- Educated at
- Washington University in St. Louis, University City High School and Soldan International Studies High School
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1948) and Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play and Nobel Prize in Literature
- Working from
- 1930
- Cause of death
- choking
- Buried at
- Calvary Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 101
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. Working below.
Where Tennessee sits
Six lines
Tennessee’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Tennessee Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbus 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 Columbus that night
Computed for 33.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Columbus at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 14% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Columbus, United States
- Lived in
- New Orleans · St. Louis
Wikidata records New Orleans and St. Louis as Tennessee Williams's home, against Columbus as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1983.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Tennessee Williams: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Tennessee's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aquarius 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
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
stableVenussquareUranus4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°41′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°03′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°20′ (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 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°
Tennessee’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Tennessee’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.
- 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°
Born the same day as Tennessee
Bernard Katz was born on March 26, 1911 too, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 33.5°N, the sky above Columbus stops at −56.5° declination. 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
Computed from March 26, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tennessee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q134262 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Tennessee Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Tennessee Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
