William Lipscomb
William Lipscomb (born December 9, 1919, Cleveland, United States; died 2011), was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist. Lipscomb's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry and Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Lipscomb’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Goat, with 
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William Lipscomb’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
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 the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of William is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
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 completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with William even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. William is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. William fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
William Lipscomb's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
William Lipscomb was born on December 9, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
William Lipscomb's birth date, December 9, 1919, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Lipscomb's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- William Lipscomb combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William Lipscomb, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Cancer 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.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto1.8° to 2.4° orb
William’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileMars1.9° to 3.0° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
William’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.4° orb
William’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
William’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.7° orb
William’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.2° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 4.2° to 19.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 5.1° to 18.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 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: 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°29′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: William may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 23°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: William is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 17°10′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. William is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 19°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has William needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has William leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.6°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.6°
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
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.4°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Lipscomb, 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 December 9, 1919, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William Lipscomb, 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 Q110935, 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 Jslipscomb James S. Lipscomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Lipscomb at Wikipedia.
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 Lipscomb.
Quick answers about William Lipscomb’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Lipscomb?
- William Lipscomb was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1919, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
- What was William Lipscomb's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1919 birth.
- What time was William Lipscomb 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 was William Lipscomb's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 9, 1919 birth date.
- What was William Lipscomb's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 9, 1919 birth date.
- Where was William Lipscomb's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Lipscomb's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
