William Holden
William Holden (born April 17, 1918, O'Fallon, United States; died 1981), was an American actor. Holden's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
William Holden’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with William
William Holden’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood 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 2nd among boys and 536th among girls in 1918, the year of this birth, with 45,291 American boys and 172 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against 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
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Holden took the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954, at 36.
South Pasadena High School and Pasadena City College shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1939, at 21.
Cause of death is recorded as exsanguination.
William Holden was married Brenda Marshall.
Wikipedia's editors put William Holden under Deaths from head injury, Alcohol-related deaths in California and Male actors from Illinois.
Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- South Pasadena High School and Pasadena City College
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1954) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1974)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1939
- Cause of death
- exsanguination
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of William is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, William is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What William needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with William, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. William builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means William channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Holden
Three stars chosen from the real sky above O'Fallon 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 O'Fallon that night
Computed for 38.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over O'Fallon at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 49% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- O'Fallon, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 1981.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Holden: 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
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 Holden at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
William Holden's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
William Holden was born on April 17, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
William Holden's birth date, April 17, 1918, 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 Holden's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- William Holden combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Cancer 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.8° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
William’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.7° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironAries 0°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 16°22′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 28°42′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.6°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Mars, JupiterAn 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.5°
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
William’s cards
Computed from April 17, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q95002 (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 film studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Holden at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Holden.
Quick answers about William Holden’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Holden?
- William Holden was an Aries: born April 17, 1918, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was William Holden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1918 birth.
- How tall was William Holden?
- William Holden was 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was William Holden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Holden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Holden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Holden's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
