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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with William
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
Of the names registered in 1897, William came 2nd among boys and 529th among girls, carried by 7,198 American boys and 32 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
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 record
What sets William apart
Will Smith (1968) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where William sits
Six lines
William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Albany 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 New Albany that night
Computed for 34.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Albany was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 81.1° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Albany at all: they sit past the −55.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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.
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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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Virgo 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
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
stableVenussquareSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.9° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquareUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.3° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°54′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°04′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 25°13′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°34′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
William’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in William’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
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William’s cards
Computed from September 25, 1897. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q38392 (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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Faulkner at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was William Faulkner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Faulkner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
