William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948, Wilkes-Barre, United States), aged 78, 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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with William
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.?
#9
US rank in 2025
~4,215,725
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1948, 61,972 American boys and 157 girls were registered William — 4th among boys and 668th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
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
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
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 1948, 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 Albert A. Michelson Medal came in 1996, when William Daniel Phillips was 48.
Study took William Daniel Phillips to Camp Hill High School and Juniata College.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Converts to Methodism and American scientists.
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Camp Hill High School, Juniata College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1997), Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (1998) and Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (2000)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
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. Working below.
Where William sits
Six lines
William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to William Daniel Phillips
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilkes-Barre 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 Wilkes-Barre that night
Computed for 41.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wilkes-Barre at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
Wilkes-Barre sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Wilkes-Barre at all: they sit past the −48.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 26% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Capricorn 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
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
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 27°03′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 17°33′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 20°21′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°04′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 11°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.2°
William’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
William’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190756 (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 NIST, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Daniel Phillips 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 Daniel Phillips.
Quick answers about William Daniel Phillips’s chart
- How old is William Daniel Phillips?
- William Daniel Phillips is 78 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.
- 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 is William Daniel Phillips's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is William Daniel Phillips's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
