William Bolcom
William Bolcom (born May 26, 1938, Seattle, United States), aged 88, is an American composer (born 1938). Bolcom's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Medal of Arts.
William Bolcom’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with William
William Bolcom’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1938, William came 4th among boys and 590th among girls, carried by 42,433 American boys and 138 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (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
William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 William apart
William Bolcom took the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: Mills College at Northeastern University and Stanford University.
On the family side, William Bolcom was married Joan Morris.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for William Bolcom: Composers from Washington (state), Musicians from Seattle and Classical musicians from Washington (state).
Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mills College at Northeastern University and Stanford University
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (1988)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. William needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How William wants to be loved
William 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. William gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. William creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: William is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. William 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. William scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle 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 Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Seattle was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 83.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 47.6°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 Seattle at all: they sit past the −42.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
William Bolcom's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
William Bolcom was born on May 26, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
William Bolcom's birth date, May 26, 1938, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Bolcom's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- William Bolcom combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineJupiter0.8° to 2.0° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
William’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.4° orb
William’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 5.9° to 19.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 6.9° to 19.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineNeptuneorb from 6.9° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 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.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 29°51′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 14°03′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 6°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.8°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.5°
More people like William
Other composers
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- Mario Davidovsky1934
- Edward Kleban1939
- David Del Tredici1937
- Jimi Hendrix1942
- Richard Wernick1934
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Fellow Gemini suns
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on May 26
- Miles Davis1926
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- Helena Bonham Carter1966
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
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Other Steadfast Seekers
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
William’s cards
Computed from May 26, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q710714 (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 Steven Damron, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Bolcom at Wikipedia, williambolcom.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Bolcom.
Quick answers about William Bolcom’s chart
- How old is William Bolcom?
- William Bolcom is 88 years old, born May 26, 1938 in Seattle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William Bolcom?
- William Bolcom is a Gemini: born May 26, 1938, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is William Bolcom's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1938 birth.
- What is William Bolcom's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is William Bolcom's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is William Bolcom's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Bolcom's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
