William H. Goetzmann
William H. Goetzmann (born July 20, 1930, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2010), was an American historian of philosophy. Goetzmann's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Francis Parkman Prize and John Addison Porter Prize.
William H. Goetzmann’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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William H. Goetzmann’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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 feels the room before entering it. The core of William is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for William, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, William is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What William needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. William is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. William scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 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.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
William H. Goetzmann's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
William H. Goetzmann was born on July 20, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
William H. Goetzmann's birth date, July 20, 1930, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William H. Goetzmann's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- William H. Goetzmann combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William H. Goetzmann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Taurus 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.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars0.4° to 1.7° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
William’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.7° to 2.0° orb
William’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.9° to 2.6° orb
William’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareMars2.4° to 2.9° orb
William’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto4.0° orb
William’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.5° orb
William’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
William’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.6° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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 18°20′ (moves 0.03° 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.
⚳ CeresLeo 2°58′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. William is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus 6°55′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has William wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°51′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has William needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has William at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Eros trine Venus 0.0°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: William is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Cancer · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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 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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William H. Goetzmann, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like William
Other historians
- Edmund Morris1940
- Stanley Karnow1925
- William S. McFeely1930
- Carl Neumann Degler1921
- Rhys Isaac1937
- David Brion Davis1927
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William’s cards
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☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William H. Goetzmann, 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 Q8010423, 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.
The same William H. Goetzmann at Wikipedia.
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 H. Goetzmann’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William H. Goetzmann?
- William H. Goetzmann was a Cancer: born July 20, 1930, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was William H. Goetzmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1930 birth.
- What time was William H. Goetzmann 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 H. Goetzmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1930 birth date.
- What was William H. Goetzmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1930 birth date.
- Where was William H. Goetzmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William H. Goetzmann's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
