William E. Moerner
William E. Moerner (born June 24, 1953, Pleasanton, United States), aged 73, is a Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist. Moerner's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics and Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry.
William E. Moerner’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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William E. Moerner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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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 slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once William is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. William creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: William is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. William is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
William E. Moerner's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 24, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
William E. Moerner was born on June 24, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
William E. Moerner's birth date, June 24, 1953, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William E. Moerner's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- William E. Moerner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William E. Moerner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
William’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
William’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.6° orb
William’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.9° orb
William’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.8° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
William’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquarePluto3.7° to 4.6° orb
William’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.0° to 4.3° orb
William’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.9° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 5.4° to 18.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysquareNeptuneorb from 6.5° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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 ℞Capricorn 19°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. William is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresCancer 20°35′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. William is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 7°43′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has William wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°27′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has William needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has William exacting with themselves first.
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 square Saturn 0.0°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.8°
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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: William is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.0°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William E. Moerner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
William’s cards
Every card is computed from June 24, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William E. Moerner, 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 Q1387059, 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 Kevin Lowder, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William E. Moerner at Wikipedia, profiles.stanford.edu and IMDb.
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 E. Moerner’s chart
- How old is William E. Moerner?
- William E. Moerner is 73 years old, born June 24, 1953 in Pleasanton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William E. Moerner?
- William E. Moerner is a Cancer: born June 24, 1953, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- What is William E. Moerner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 24, 1953 birth.
- What time was William E. Moerner 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 E. Moerner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 24, 1953 birth date.
- What is William E. Moerner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 24, 1953 birth date.
- Where is William E. Moerner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William E. Moerner's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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