Will McIntosh
Will McIntosh (born January 31, 1962, New York City, United States), aged 64, is an American writer. McIntosh's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Will McIntosh’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Will McIntosh’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Will, according to the stars
Core essence
Will is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Will is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Will is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Will needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Will wants to be loved
Will wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Will be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Will creates
How Will makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Will creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Will is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Will does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Will's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Will McIntosh in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Will McIntosh's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Will McIntosh was born on January 31, 1962, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Will McIntosh's birth date, January 31, 1962, 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 Will’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Will McIntosh's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Will McIntosh combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Will’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Will McIntosh, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius 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.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.4° to 1.7° orb
Will’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.1° orb
Will’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.6° to 2.6° orb
Will’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.2° orb
Will’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
Will’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
Will’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
Will’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.7° orb
Will’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 6.6° orb
Will’s core identity and growth act as one.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Will’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°46′ (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 Will absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°40′ (moves 0.18° 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. Will is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 24°58′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Will is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°05′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Will is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Will exacting with themselves first.
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 conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Will’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Will is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Will’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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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 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.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Will McIntosh, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Will’s cards
Every card is computed from January 31, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Will McIntosh, 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
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4308835, 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.
The same Will McIntosh at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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 Will McIntosh.
Quick answers about Will McIntosh’s chart
- How old is Will McIntosh?
- Will McIntosh is 64 years old, born January 31, 1962 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Will McIntosh?
- Will McIntosh is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1962, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Will McIntosh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1962 birth.
- What time was Will McIntosh 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 is Will McIntosh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 31, 1962 birth date.
- What is Will McIntosh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 31, 1962 birth date.
- Where is Will McIntosh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Will McIntosh's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
