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William C. Campbell

William C. Campbell (born June 28, 1930, Ramelton, Ireland), aged 96, is an Irish biochemist. Campbell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Fellow of the Royal Society.

William C. Campbell’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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William C. Campbell’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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

In 1930, 47,271 American boys and 289 girls were registered William — 4th among boys and 399th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What William’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

11 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 2015, when William C. Campbell was 85.

Study took William C. Campbell to University of Dublin and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

On Wikipedia the categories read Irish microbiologists, American parasitologists and People educated at Campbell College.

Itamar Franco shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
University of Dublin, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Trinity College, Dublin
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015) and Fellow of the Royal Society (2020)
Citizenship
United States and Ireland
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
58

What the chart says

William, according to the stars

Core essence

William feels the room before entering it. The core of William is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for William, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore William openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How William creates

How William makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. William creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. William is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means William is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

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

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

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 C. Campbell

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

William’s birth-night reference starMizarwhite · Ursa MajorMizar, in Ursa Major. A white star, 85.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mizar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 19.3° 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 Ramelton that night

Computed for 55.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Ramelton at 9 p.m. that evening: Mizar of Ursa Major, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

Ramelton sits at 55.0°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −35.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ramelton on any night.

Sun -8° below the horizon, Moon up and 8% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Ramelton, Ireland
Lives in
North Andover

Wikidata records North Andover as William C. Campbell's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual William's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

William C. Campbell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

William C. Campbell was born on June 28, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

William C. Campbell's birth date, June 28, 1930, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 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 24° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.8° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.2° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 5.7° orbSun in Cancer · 6°00′☉6°Moon in Leo · 2°26′☽2°Mercury in Gemini · 18°00′☿18°Venus in Leo · 10°59′♀10°Mars in Taurus · 18°35′♂18°Jupiter in Cancer · 0°21′♃0°Saturn in Capricorn · 8°47′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Aries · 15°10′♅15°Neptune in Virgo · 1°22′♆1°Pluto in Cancer · 18°48′♇18°

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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.9° to 1.1° orb

    William’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.0° to 3.7° orb

    William’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto3.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.3° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.6° to 15.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.2° to 5.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 5.2° to 20.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 6.1° to 21.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 17°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 23°06′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 23°45′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°33′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.8°

William’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in William’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 2.2°

Born the same day as William

Itamar Franco was born on June 28, 1930 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Ramelton, at 55.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

William’s cards

Computed from June 28, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21061212 (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 Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same William C. Campbell at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William C. Campbell.

Quick answers about William C. Campbell’s chart

How old is William C. Campbell?
William C. Campbell is 96 years old, born June 28, 1930 in Ramelton, Ireland.
What zodiac sign is William C. Campbell?
William C. Campbell is a Cancer: born June 28, 1930, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is William C. Campbell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1930 birth.
What is William C. Campbell's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is William C. Campbell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is William C. Campbell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is William C. Campbell's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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