William Howard Stein
William Howard Stein (born June 25, 1911, New York City, United States; died 1980), was an American biochemist. Stein's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
William Howard Stein’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with William
William Howard Stein’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1911, 10,593 American boys and 50 girls were registered William — 2nd among boys and 609th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry came in 1972, when William Howard Stein was 61.
William Howard Stein was taught at Columbia University and Harvard University.
William Howard Stein was born to Beatrice Cecilia Borg and Frederick Michael Stein.
On Wikipedia the categories read Haverford College faculty, Journal of Biological Chemistry editors and American scientists with disabilities.
George Orwell (1903) and George Michael (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
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 processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What William needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. William creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: William is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means William gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Howard Stein
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Howard Stein: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 Howard Stein at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
William Howard Stein's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
William Howard Stein was born on June 25, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
William Howard Stein's birth date, June 25, 1911, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Howard Stein's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- William Howard Stein combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Gemini 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
stableVenussquareSaturn1.2° to 2.1° orb
William’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.3° to 2.2° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenustrineMars1.5° to 1.8° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.5° to 5.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.9° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 15°44′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 16°20′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 18°20′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 21°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.0°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.3°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 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 semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.6°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
William’s cards
Computed from June 25, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q156492 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Howard Stein.
Quick answers about William Howard Stein’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Howard Stein?
- William Howard Stein was a Cancer: born June 25, 1911, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was William Howard Stein's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1911 birth.
- What was William Howard Stein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Howard Stein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Howard Stein's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Howard Stein's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
