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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with William
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
William ranked 4th among boys and 399th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 47,271 American boys and 289 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.
22
Expression · building at scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 H. Goetzmann took the John Addison Porter Prize in 1957, at 27.
The classrooms behind this chart: St. Thomas High School and Yale University.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Grove Street Cemetery.
William H. Goetzmann was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put William H. Goetzmann under St. Thomas High School (Houston) alumni, American historians of philosophy and University of Texas at Austin faculty.
Gregor Mendel (1822) and Gisele Bündchen (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St. Thomas High School and Yale University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1977), Pulitzer Prize for History (1967) and Francis Parkman Prize (1967)
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Grove Street Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
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. 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to William H. Goetzmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 77.8° up.
Of the 80 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 29% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at Austin, Travis County in 2010.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William H. Goetzmann: 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
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Cancer
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Taurus 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
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
stableMarssquareNeptune1.9° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°20′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 2°58′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 6°55′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°51′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
William’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in William’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
More people like William
Other historians
- Edmund Morris1940
- Stanley Karnow1925
- William S. McFeely1930
- Carl Neumann Degler1921
- Rhys Isaac1937
- David Brion Davis1927
Born in United States
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William’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8010423 (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.
The same William H. Goetzmann at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William H. Goetzmann.
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.
- 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 was William H. Goetzmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was William H. Goetzmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
