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William A. Caldwell

William A. Caldwell (born December 5, 1906, Butler, United States; died 1986), was an American journalist. Caldwell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

William A. Caldwell’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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William A. Caldwell’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#9

US rank in 2025

~4,215,725

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

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What the chart says

William, according to the stars

Core essence

William is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of William 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.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with William and watch them fall for you again.

How William creates

How William makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. William creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: William is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. William is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. William fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where William sits

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Intimate circleWide network
William

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

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

PrivateExpressive
William

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

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

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

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 William A. Caldwell

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

William’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 85.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 51.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

William A. Caldwell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 5, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

William A. Caldwell was born on December 5, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

William A. Caldwell's birth date, December 5, 1906, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for William A. Caldwell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.7° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.1° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 12°40′☉12°Moon in Leo · 4°12′☽4°Mercury in Sagittarius · 0°48′ · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Sagittarius · 3°52′ · retrograde♀℞3°Mars in Libra · 22°44′♂22°Jupiter in Cancer · 8°55′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Pisces · 8°46′♄8°Uranus in Capricorn · 7°07′♅7°Neptune in Cancer · 12°00′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Gemini · 22°57′ · retrograde♇℞22°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    William’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.6° orb

    William’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn0.1° to 0.2° orb

    William’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb

    William’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb

    William’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb

    William’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

    William’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.4° to 4.4° orb

    William’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 5.2° orb

    William’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.9° orb

    William’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

William’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 8°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has William making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 13°36′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has William feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 13°04′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has William attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°47′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. William is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 16°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of William that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.4°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 0.9°

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°).

William’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

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

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: William is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 William’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, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · 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 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.

  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William A. Caldwell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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William’s cards

Every card is computed from December 5, 1906, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

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The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for William A. Caldwell, 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

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8003919, 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 William A. Caldwell at Wikipedia.

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 William A. Caldwell.

Quick answers about William A. Caldwell’s chart

What zodiac sign was William A. Caldwell?
William A. Caldwell was a Sagittarius: born December 5, 1906, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
What was William A. Caldwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 5, 1906 birth.
What time was William A. Caldwell 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 was William A. Caldwell's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 5, 1906 birth date.
What was William A. Caldwell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 5, 1906 birth date.
Where was William A. Caldwell'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 William A. Caldwell's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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