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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Kennedy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 20° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
William’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 0.9° orb
William’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.6° to 2.1° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
William’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.2° orb
William’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 5.2° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has William building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has William caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°30′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has William attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 24°21′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. William is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. William is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
William’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: William is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in William’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Kennedy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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William’s cards
Every card is computed from January 16, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for William Kennedy, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31984, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit.
- 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 time was William Kennedy born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is William Kennedy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 16, 1928 birth date.
- What is William Kennedy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 16, 1928 birth date.
- 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.
