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Willard Boyle

Willard Boyle (born August 19, 1924, Amherst, Canada; died 2011), was a Canadian physicist and inventor. Boyle's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Companion of the Order of Canada.

Willard Boyle’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Willard Boyle’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Willard in the U.S.?

#2760

US rank in 2025

~78,542

Americans share it since 1880

1915

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,834 American boys and 26 girls named Willard in 1924: 97th among boys and 1,717th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Willard’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 D (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Willard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, 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 Willard apart

The Stuart Ballantine Medal came in 1973, when Willard Boyle was 49.

Willard Boyle was taught at Lower Canada College and McGill University.

The record gives kidney disease as the cause, and Wallace Cemetery as the resting place.

Wikipedia files Willard Boyle under People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Academic staff of the Royal Military College of Canada and Royal Canadian Navy personnel of World War II.

Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Lower Canada College and McGill University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2009), IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974) and Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006)
Cause of death
kidney disease
Buried at
Wallace Cemetery
Citizenship
Canada and United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
69

What the chart says

Willard, according to the stars

Core essence

Willard is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Willard is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Willard wants to be loved

Willard 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. Willard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Willard creates

How Willard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Willard creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Willard 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 7 is the seeker. Willard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Willard slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Willard's birth date. Working below.

Where Willard sits

Six lines

Willard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Willard

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Willard

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Willard

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Willard

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Willard

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Willard

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Amherst on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Willard’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 82.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Amherst that night

Computed for 45.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Amherst at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

From 45.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Amherst at all: they sit past the −44.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 72% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Amherst, Canada

The death is recorded at Wallace, Cumberland County in 2011.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Willard Boyle: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Willard's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde

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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Willard Boyle at a glance

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Willard Boyle's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Willard Boyle was born on August 19, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Willard Boyle's birth date, August 19, 1924, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Willard’s chart

Willard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.8° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.8° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.6° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 5° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.5° orbSun in Leo · 26°21′☉26°Moon in Aries · 25°54′☽25°Mercury in Virgo · 23°13′☿23°Venus in Cancer · 12°38′♀12°Mars in Pisces · 1°19′ · retrograde♂℞1°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 10°18′♃10°Saturn in Libra · 27°43′♄27°Uranus in Pisces · 20°27′ · retrograde♅℞20°Neptune in Leo · 20°21′♆20°Pluto in Cancer · 12°59′♇12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.3° orb

    Willard’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Willard’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Willard’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.4° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionMars4.4° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 6.6° to 19.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Willard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°28′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 9°32′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 21°26′ (moves 0.49° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 16°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.5°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros square Neptune 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Sun 1.9°

Willard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Willard’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.

  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.3°

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Willard’s cards

Computed from August 19, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Willard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73058 (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 Prolineserver (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Willard Boyle at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Willard Boyle.

Quick answers about Willard Boyle’s chart

What zodiac sign was Willard Boyle?
Willard Boyle was a Leo: born August 19, 1924, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Willard Boyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1924 birth.
What was Willard Boyle's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Willard Boyle's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Willard Boyle's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Willard Boyle's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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