William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (born September 17, 1883, Rutherford, United States; died 1963), was an American poet. Williams is best remembered for Paterson. Williams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, New Jersey Hall of Fame and Bollingen Prize.
William Carlos Williams’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
William Carlos Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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
In 1883, 8,387 American boys and 40 girls were registered William — 2nd among boys and 281st 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.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
2
Personality · warm, careful
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
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets William apart
Narendra Modi (1950) and Slayyyter (1996) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of William is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with William and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. William builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: William is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. William is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of William leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means William does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
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 Rutherford 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 Rutherford that night
Computed for 40.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Rutherford at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Rutherford sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rutherford on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · No Fire 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
William Carlos Williams's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 17, 1883, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Goat
Water GoatKind, and quietly tough.
William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
William Carlos Williams's birth date, September 17, 1883, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Carlos Williams' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Carlos Williams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Pisces or Aries 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
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
William’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb
William’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.8° to 1.0° orb
William’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 18°45′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 0°46′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 3°10′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.4°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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 quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.1°
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William’s cards
Computed from September 17, 1883. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q178106 (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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The same William Carlos Williams at Wikipedia 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 Carlos Williams.
Quick answers about William Carlos Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Carlos Williams?
- William Carlos Williams was a Virgo: born September 17, 1883, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was William Carlos Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 17, 1883 birth.
- What was William Carlos Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Carlos Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Carlos Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Carlos Williams's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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