William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948, Wilkes-Barre, United States), aged 77, is a Physics Nobel laureate. Phillips's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science and Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award.
William Daniel Phillips’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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William Daniel Phillips’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name William in the U.S.?
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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
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William does not do surface. The core of William is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from William is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, William is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What William needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. William gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. William has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
William Daniel Phillips's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
William Daniel Phillips was born on November 5, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
William Daniel Phillips's birth date, November 5, 1948, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Daniel Phillips' date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Daniel Phillips combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William Daniel Phillips, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Capricorn 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.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
William’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrinePluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.0° to 2.2° orb
William’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
William’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb
William’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
William’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
William’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus5.1° to 6.2° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb
William’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 27°03′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has William carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresLeo 17°33′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. William is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLibra 20°21′ (moves 0.84° 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.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°04′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. William is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. William is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.2°
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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: William is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Daniel Phillips, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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William’s cards
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♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William Daniel Phillips, 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 Q190756, 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 NIST, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Daniel Phillips at Wikipedia.
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 Daniel Phillips’s chart
- How old is William Daniel Phillips?
- William Daniel Phillips is 77 years old, born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William Daniel Phillips?
- William Daniel Phillips is a Scorpio: born November 5, 1948, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is William Daniel Phillips's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1948 birth.
- What time was William Daniel Phillips 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 is William Daniel Phillips's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 5, 1948 birth date.
- What is William Daniel Phillips's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 5, 1948 birth date.
- Where is William Daniel Phillips's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Daniel Phillips's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
