William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935, Chicago, United States; died 2023), was an American director and producer. Friedkin's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Leopard of Honour.
William Friedkin’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
William Friedkin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
William ranked 4th among boys and 498th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 40,204 American boys and 163 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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
William Friedkin took the Academy Award for Best Director in 1972, at 37.
The classrooms behind this chart: Senn High School.
The working life starts in 1962, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
William Friedkin was married Sherry Lansing and Jeanne Moreau.
Wikipedia's editors put William Friedkin under Film directors from Illinois, Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and American action film directors.
Michael Jackson (1958) and Liam Payne (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Senn High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (1972), Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1973) and Time Machine Award (2007)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
- Working from
- 1962
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of William is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with William and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. William creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: William is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. William is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of William leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means William runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Friedkin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Vega, in Lyra, 86.8° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Friedkin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Only two elements · Venus retrograde
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
William Friedkin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
William Friedkin was born on August 29, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
William Friedkin's birth date, August 29, 1935, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Friedkin's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Friedkin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 7.2° orb
William’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.0° to 2.1° orb
William’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileMars1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.3° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.0° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°57′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°03′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 23°57′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.9°
More people like William
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- Vernon Dobtcheff1934
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- Alain Delon1935
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Born in United States
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on August 29
- Michael Jackson1958
- Liam Payne1993
- Lea Michele1986
- Brian Chesky1981
- Pierpaolo Piccioli1967
- John McCain1936
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Ed HarrisAmerican actor and director (born 1950)
- Tim RothBritish actor
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
William’s cards
Computed from August 29, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51582 (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 GuillemMedina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Friedkin at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Friedkin.
Quick answers about William Friedkin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Friedkin?
- William Friedkin was a Virgo: born August 29, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was William Friedkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1935 birth.
- How tall was William Friedkin?
- William Friedkin was 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was William Friedkin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Friedkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Friedkin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Friedkin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
