Will Hobson
Will Hobson (born June 22, 1984, Miami, United States), aged 42, is an American journalist. Hobson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.
Will Hobson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Will
Will Hobson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Will in the U.S.?
#1195
US rank in 2025
~46,610
Americans share it since 1880
1888
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1984, Will came 595th, carried by 204 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Will’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
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 1984, 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 Will apart
Will Hobson took the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2014, at 30.
Boston College shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Will Hobson: Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting winners and Boston College alumni.
The same date carries Robert Jackson Bennett. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Boston College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (2014)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Will, according to the stars
Core essence
Will feels the room before entering it. The core of Will is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Will, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Will runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Will needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Will wants to be loved
Will wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Will gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Will creates
How Will makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Will creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Will is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Will 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Will 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 Will's birth date. Working below.
Where Will sits
Six lines
Will’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Will Hobson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami 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 Miami that night
Computed for 25.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Arcturus stood nearest the zenith over Miami at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Boötes.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 25.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at last quarter, 35% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual Will's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Five planets retrograde · 3 planets at a critical degree
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Will Hobson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Will Hobson was born on June 22, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Will Hobson's birth date, June 22, 1984, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Will’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Will Hobson's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Will Hobson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Will’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.2° orb
Will’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 2.0° orb
Will’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.4° to 2.6° orb
Will’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.7° to 2.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Will’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 6°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 15°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 16°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.1°
Will’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Will’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as Will
Robert Jackson Bennett was born on June 22, 1984 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 86 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Arcturus nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on June 22
- Meryl Streep1949
- Cyndi Lauper1953
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Gradey DickAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Pelle LarssonSwedish basketball player (born 2001)
- Kobe BufkinAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Other Cancer Rat charts
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- RodriSpanish association football player (born 1996)
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Other Radiant Pioneers
- Marsha MasonAmerican actress (born 1942)
- Ryan MurphyAmerican screenwriter (born 1965)
- Nikita Khrushchevleader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- Timothy GowersBritish mathematician
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Will PutnamAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Mykel WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Deebo SamuelAmerican football player (born 1996)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Will’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97462718 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Will Hobson.
Quick answers about Will Hobson’s chart
- How old is Will Hobson?
- Will Hobson is 42 years old, born June 22, 1984 in Miami, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Will Hobson?
- Will Hobson is a Cancer: born June 22, 1984, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Will Hobson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1984 birth.
- What is Will Hobson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Will Hobson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Will Hobson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Will Hobson's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
