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Willard Libby

Willard Libby (born December 17, 1908, Grand Valley, United States; died 1980), was an American physical chemist. Libby's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Albert Einstein Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Willard Libby’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Willard Libby’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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

Willard ranked 112th among boys and 1,544th among girls in 1908, the year of this birth, with 229 American boys and 9 girls on the register.

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

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on W (5) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

2 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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

Willard Libby took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941, at 33.

Analy High School and University of California, Berkeley shaped the training.

Willard Libby was married Leona Woods.

Wikipedia's editors put Willard Libby under People from Grand Junction, Colorado, Analy High School alumni and Time Person of the Year.

Pope Francis (1936) and Milla Jovovich (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Analy High School, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1960), Albert Einstein Award (1959) and Willard Gibbs Award (1958)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
71

What the chart says

Willard, according to the stars

Core essence

Willard is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Willard is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Willard cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Willard needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Willard wants to be loved

Willard wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Willard even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Willard creates

How Willard makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Willard creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Willard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Willard is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Willard 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 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Willard

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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

Dedicate a star to Willard Libby

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

Willard’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 83.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 14.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Grand Valley that night

Computed for 39.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Grand Valley at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.8° above the horizon in Perseus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.2°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 Grand Valley at all: they sit past the −50.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 29% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Grand Valley, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1980.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Willard Libby: 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

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

2 unaspected planets

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Willard Libby's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 17, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Willard Libby was born on December 17, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Willard Libby's birth date, December 17, 1908, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 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 10° to 22° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.3° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.7° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.8° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 25°29′☉25°Moon in Libra · 16°31′☽16°Mercury in Sagittarius · 21°53′☿21°Venus in Scorpio · 23°46′♀23°Mars in Scorpio · 14°33′♂14°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°16′♃14°Saturn in Aries · 3°29′♄3°Uranus in Capricorn · 15°45′♅15°Neptune in Cancer · 16°16′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Gemini · 24°49′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

  • stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.9° orb

    Willard’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMoonsquareNeptune0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Willard’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Willard’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 3.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 19°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°51′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 12°52′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 25°55′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 0.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.1°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 2.9°

Willard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

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.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

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Willard’s cards

Computed from December 17, 1908. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Willard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190486 (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.

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Quick answers about Willard Libby’s chart

What zodiac sign was Willard Libby?
Willard Libby was a Sagittarius: born December 17, 1908, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Willard Libby's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 17, 1908 birth.
What was Willard Libby's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Willard Libby's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Willard Libby's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Willard Libby's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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