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William Allen White

William Allen White (born February 10, 1868, Emporia, United States; died 1944), was an American newspaper editor and Progressive leader. White is best remembered for What's the Matter with Kansas?. White's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.

William Allen White’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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William Allen White’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 name records start in 1880, 12 years after this birth. In that first year William ranked 2nd among boys and 287th among girls, with 9,532 American boys and 30 girls registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What William’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Ivory · Gold

The record

What sets William apart

Mia Khalifa (1993) and Lee Hsien Loong (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

William, according to the stars

Core essence

William is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of William 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.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with William, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How William creates

How William 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. William 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: William is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. William is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. William goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from William's birth date. Working below.

Where William sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
William

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
William

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to William Allen White

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

William’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 83.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Emporia that night

Computed for 38.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Emporia was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 83.5° up.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 38.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −51.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Emporia on any night.

Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 90% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual William's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet

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

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

William Allen White's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 10, 1868, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

William Allen White was born on February 10, 1868, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

William Allen White's birth date, February 10, 1868, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.6° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.2° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 21°21′☉21°Moon in Virgo · 24°04′☽24°Mercury in Pisces · 4°34′☿4°Venus in Pisces · 24°12′♀24°Mars in Aquarius · 11°54′♂11°Jupiter in Pisces · 13°29′♃13°Saturn in Sagittarius · 4°48′♄4°Uranus in Cancer · 9°19′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Aries · 12°56′♆12°Pluto in Taurus · 14°10′♇14°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    William’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.1° orb

    William’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto0.6° to 0.8° orb

    William’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.9° to 2.7° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.9° to 5.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 2.3° to 16.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 3.1° to 17.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 3.9° to 18.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 24°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 28°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn or Sagittarius during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 6°36′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 26°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Venus 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.7°

William’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in William’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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°

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William’s cards

Computed from February 10, 1868. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2577838 (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 Unknown photographer; part of the Library of Congress's Bain Collection. All rights in the Bain Collection photographs have been acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948; the images were released in the Public Domain., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Allen White.

Quick answers about William Allen White’s chart

What zodiac sign was William Allen White?
William Allen White was an Aquarius: born February 10, 1868, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was William Allen White's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 10, 1868 birth.
What was William Allen White's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was William Allen White's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was William Allen White's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was William Allen White's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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