William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931, Highland Park, United States; died 2018), was an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Goldman is best remembered for The Princess Bride. Goldman's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Edgar Awards.
William Goldman’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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William Goldman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~4,215,725
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of William is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. William creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: William is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. William is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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William Goldman in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
William Goldman's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
William Goldman was born on August 12, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
William Goldman's birth date, August 12, 1931, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Goldman's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- William Goldman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William Goldman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.8° to 1.2° orb
William’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.6° to 2.4° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranussquarePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
William’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.3° orb
William’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb
William’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.4° orb
William’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.8° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileMarsorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has William building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 21°12′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. William is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 10°45′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. William is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°58′ (moves 0.34° 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 LilithAries 0°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has William carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 Pluto 0.0°
- Eros square Venus 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
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. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: William is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Leo · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Goldman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
William’s cards
Every card is computed from August 12, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William Goldman, 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 Q506885, 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 thedemonhog, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Goldman 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.
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Quick answers about William Goldman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Goldman?
- William Goldman was a Leo: born August 12, 1931, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was William Goldman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1931 birth.
- What time was William Goldman 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 Goldman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 12, 1931 birth date.
- What was William Goldman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 12, 1931 birth date.
- Where was William Goldman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Goldman's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
