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William H. Macy

William H. Macy (born March 13, 1950, Miami, United States), aged 76, is an American actor. Macy's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

William H. Macy’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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William H. Macy’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

In 1950, 60,680 American boys and 125 girls were registered William — 6th among boys and 776th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What William’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

2

Soul Urge · closeness

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, 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

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie came in 2003, when William H. Macy was 53.

Study took William H. Macy to HB Studio and Goddard College.

William H. Macy was 21 when the work began in 1971.

The family line: born to William Hall Macy, Sr., married Felicity Huffman and raised 2 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actors from Cumberland, Maryland, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners and American acting theorists.

Charles Krauthammer shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
HB Studio, Goddard College and Bethany College
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (2003)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1971
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
62

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.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let William be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. 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: 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. Working below.

Where William sits

Six lines

William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
William

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
William

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to William H. Macy

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

William’s birth-night reference starPolluxwarm orange · GeminiPollux, in Gemini. A warm orange star, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Pollux →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 50.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Miami that night

Computed for 25.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Miami at 9 p.m. that evening: Pollux of Gemini, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Miami sits at 25.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 20% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Miami, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as William H. Macy's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William H. Macy: 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

17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Mars retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

William H. Macy's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 13, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

William H. Macy was born on March 13, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

William H. Macy's birth date, March 13, 1950, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.6° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.7° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 4.9° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 5.7° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 5.8° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 6.1° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 6.7° orbSun in Pisces · 22°33′☉22°Moon in Capricorn · 25°08′☽25°Mercury in Pisces · 9°45′☿9°Venus in Aquarius · 10°32′♀10°Mars in Libra · 5°36′ · retrograde♂℞5°Jupiter in Aquarius · 23°16′♃23°Saturn in Virgo · 15°32′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Cancer · 0°57′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 16°37′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Leo · 16°13′ · retrograde♇℞16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

    William’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineMars4.4° to 5.4° orb

    William’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.5° to 4.8° orb

    William’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.9° to 6.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.8° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.5° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.9° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.9° to 15.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.9° to 16.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 28°48′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 18°36′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.5°
  • Chiron square Sun 1.1°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.1°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°

William’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects

Configurations in William’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus biquintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°

William’s family here

One relative of William H. Macy also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as William

Charles Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 105 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Pollux nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated

William’s cards

Computed from March 13, 1950. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q224159 (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 gdcgraphics, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same William H. Macy at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 H. Macy.

Quick answers about William H. Macy’s chart

How old is William H. Macy?
William H. Macy is 76 years old, born March 13, 1950 in Miami, United States.
What zodiac sign is William H. Macy?
William H. Macy is a Pisces: born March 13, 1950, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is William H. Macy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 13, 1950 birth.
What is William H. Macy's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is William H. Macy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is William H. Macy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is William H. Macy's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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