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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Will
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
Of the names registered in 1962, Will came 559th, carried by 200 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Will’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 McIntosh took the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2010, at 48.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Georgia.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Will McIntosh: Georgia Southern University faculty, Asimov's Science Fiction people and University of Georgia alumni.
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Georgia
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2010)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Locus Award for Best First Novel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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. 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 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.
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 McIntosh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 20% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Will's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · 2 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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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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°58′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 26°05′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°33′ (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 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°
Will’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Will’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.8°
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Will’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4308835 (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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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Will McIntosh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Will McIntosh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
