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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Goat, with 
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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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Carlos Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
William’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
William’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitersextileUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars4.9° orb
William’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has William turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresGemini 18°45′ (moves 0.18° 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.
♡ ErosLibra 0°46′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. William is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 3°10′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. William is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. William is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 trine Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.4°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: William is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 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 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.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Carlos Williams, 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 September 17, 1883, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for William Carlos Williams, 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 Q178106, 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.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Carlos Williams at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- 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 time was William Carlos Williams 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 Carlos Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 17, 1883 birth date.
- What was William Carlos Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 17, 1883 birth date.
- 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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