William L. Laurence
William L. Laurence (born March 7, 1888, Salantai, Lithuania; died 1977), was an American journalist. Laurence's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Reporting, George Polk Award and James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry.
William L. Laurence’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with William
William L. Laurence’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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 1888, William came 2nd among boys and 371st among girls, carried by 8,705 American boys and 42 girls.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
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
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets William apart
William L. Laurence took the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1946, at 58.
The classrooms behind this chart: Boston University and Harvard Law School.
Cause of death is recorded as thrombus.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for William L. Laurence: People from Salantai, Boston University School of Law alumni and Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States.
Sanae Takaichi (1961) and Rachel Weisz (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Boston University, Harvard Law School and Harvard University
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1949), Pulitzer Prize for Reporting (1946) and James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry (1958)
- Cause of death
- thrombus
- Citizenship
- United States and Lithuania
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
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.
The vibe
Underneath, William is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What William needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. William is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means William runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 L. Laurence
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salantai 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 Salantai that night
Computed for 56.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Salantai was Muscida, in Ursa Major, 84.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 109 catalog stars were up in all.
From 56.1°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −33.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 23% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Salantai, Lithuania
The death is recorded at Mallorca, Balearic Islands in 1977.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William L. Laurence: 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
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 2 planets at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
William L. Laurence's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 7, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
William L. Laurence was born on March 7, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
William L. Laurence's birth date, March 7, 1888, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William L. Laurence's date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Uranus.
- William L. Laurence combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Capricorn 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
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.9° orb
William’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.1° orb
William’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 4.8° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 26°22′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 12°35′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 29°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Mars 2.5°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.6°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
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- Sanae Takaichi1961
- Rachel Weisz1970
- Bryan Cranston1956
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William’s cards
Computed from March 7, 1888. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q167540 (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.
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Quick answers about William L. Laurence’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William L. Laurence?
- William L. Laurence was a Pisces: born March 7, 1888, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was William L. Laurence's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 7, 1888 birth.
- What was William L. Laurence's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was William L. Laurence's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William L. Laurence's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William L. Laurence's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
