William Faulkner
William Faulkner (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, United States; died 1962), was an American writer. Faulkner is best remembered for A Rose for Emily, Absalom, Absalom! and Light in August. Faulkner's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and O. Henry Award.
William Faulkner’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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William Faulkner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Blush · Scarlet
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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of William is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, William is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What William needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore William openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. William is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. William fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where William sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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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William Faulkner in 15 seconds
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
William Faulkner's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
William Faulkner's birth date, September 25, 1897, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Faulkner's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Faulkner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William Faulkner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Virgo 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.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.6° orb
William’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.7° to 0.9° orb
William’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
William’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.9° to 2.6° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
William’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
William’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 4.3° orb
William’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrinePluto5.3° to 5.9° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°54′ (moves 0.12° 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.
⚳ CeresCancer 6°04′ (moves 0.24° 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.
♡ ErosVirgo 25°13′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. William is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°34′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. William is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of William that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.7°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
- Eros square Neptune 2.7°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 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.
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.
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Faulkner, 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 25, 1897, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William Faulkner, 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 Q38392, 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Faulkner at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by William Faulkner.
Quick answers about William Faulkner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Faulkner?
- William Faulkner was a Libra: born September 25, 1897, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
- What was William Faulkner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1897 birth.
- What time was William Faulkner 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 Faulkner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1897 birth date.
- What was William Faulkner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1897 birth date.
- Where was William Faulkner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Faulkner's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
