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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with William
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
The SSA recorded 43,969 American boys and 175 girls named William in 1919: 2nd among boys and 515th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1919, 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 Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1954, when William Lipscomb was 35.
The schooling ran through University of Kentucky and California Institute of Technology.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia.
Wikipedia files William Lipscomb under Scientists from Cleveland, People from Lexington, Kentucky and Sayre School alumni.
Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Kentucky and California Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1976), Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1973) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1954)
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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. Working below.
Where William sits
Six lines
William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Lipscomb
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Almach, in Andromeda, 87.2° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Cleveland sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Cleveland at all: they sit past the −48.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cleveland, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Lipscomb: 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
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet 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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Cancer 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
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
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.4° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°29′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 23°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 17°10′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 19°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
William’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
William’s cards
Computed from December 9, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110935 (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 Jslipscomb James S. Lipscomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Lipscomb at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was William Lipscomb's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Lipscomb's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
