William Gibson
William Gibson (born March 17, 1948, Conway, United States), aged 78, is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948). Gibson is best known for Neuromancer. Gibson's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Nebula Award for Best Novel and Tähtivaeltaja Award.
William Gibson’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with William
William Gibson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, 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
Of the names registered in 1948, William came 4th among boys and 668th among girls, carried by 61,972 American boys and 157 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
33 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets William apart
Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of William is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, William processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What William needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. William creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 33 is the master teacher. William is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means William fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Gibson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Conway 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 Conway that night
Computed for 33.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Conway was Pollux, in Gemini, 79.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.8°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 Conway at all: they sit past the −56.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 45% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars 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 →William Gibson at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
William Gibson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Love as a job description.
William Gibson's birth date, March 17, 1948, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Gibson's date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Gibson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareJupiter0.2° to 1.1° orb
William’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
William’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.2° to 2.1° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquarePluto1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 24°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°49′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°49′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°50′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°57′ (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 opposition Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.9°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
More people like William
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- A. Scott Berg1949
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- Keith Carradine1949
- Salman Rushdie1947
- Shelley Duvall1949
- Albert Brooks1947
Born in United States
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More charts like William’s
Fellow Pisces suns
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on March 17
- Nat King Cole1919
- Kurt Russell1951
- Hozier1990
- Billy Corgan1967
- Rob Kardashian1987
- Coco Austin1979
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Robin LiBillionaire businessman and entrepreneur
- Thomas LiptonBritish tea merchant and yacht racer
- Liu WenChinese model
Other Pisces Rat charts
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- Kerr SmithAmerican actor
- Dillon FreasierAmerican actor
- Mercedes RuehlAmerican actress
Other Gilded Healers
- Steven TylerAmerican singer
- Vanna WhiteAmerican model and game show hostess
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
Famous people with Life Path 33
- Steve IrwinAustralian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
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William’s cards
Computed from March 17, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188987 (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 Gonzo Bonzo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Gibson at Wikipedia, williamgibsonbooks.com, IMDb, X 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 Gibson.
Quick answers about William Gibson’s chart
- How old is William Gibson?
- William Gibson is 78 years old, born March 17, 1948 in Conway, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William Gibson?
- William Gibson is a Pisces: born March 17, 1948, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is William Gibson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1948 birth.
- What is William Gibson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is William Gibson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is William Gibson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Gibson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
