William Kennedy
William Kennedy (born January 16, 1928, Albany, United States), aged 98, is an American writer and journalist. Kennedy is best known for Legs, Ironweed and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, American Book Awards and Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Kennedy’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
William Kennedy’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
Of the names registered in 1928, William came 4th among boys and 369th among girls, carried by 49,118 American boys and 348 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
11
Personality · perceptive
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
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets William apart
Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of William is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, William feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What William needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with William and watch them fall for you again.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. William creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: William is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. William is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of William leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. William has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Kennedy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Albany 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 Albany that night
Computed for 42.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Albany at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.4° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Albany at all: they sit past the −47.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 30% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Neptune · Yod onto Neptune · 2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
William Kennedy's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
William Kennedy was born on January 16, 1928, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
William Kennedy's birth date, January 16, 1928, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Kennedy's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- William Kennedy combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
William’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.8° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 0.9° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.6° to 2.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 5.2° orb
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.3° to 5.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.9° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°30′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°21′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.8°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.9°
- Eros square Uranus 2.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.9°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 2.0°
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William’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31984 (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 Proctors Collaborative Archive, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Kennedy 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 Kennedy.
Quick answers about William Kennedy’s chart
- How old is William Kennedy?
- William Kennedy is 98 years old, born January 16, 1928 in Albany, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William Kennedy?
- William Kennedy is a Capricorn: born January 16, 1928, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is William Kennedy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1928 birth.
- What is William Kennedy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is William Kennedy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is William Kennedy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Kennedy's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
