William Morris Meredith
William Morris Meredith (born January 9, 1919, New York City, United States; died 2007), was an American poet. Meredith's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Air Medal and Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Morris Meredith’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with William
William Morris Meredith’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
In 1919, 43,969 American boys and 175 girls were registered William — 2nd among boys and 515th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets William apart
Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) 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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What William needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. William creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: William is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. William is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. William goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 57% lit at first quarter.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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 →William Morris Meredith at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
William Morris Meredith's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
William Morris Meredith was born on January 9, 1919, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
William Morris Meredith's birth date, January 9, 1919, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Morris Meredith's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- William Morris Meredith combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Aries 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 0.8° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
William’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.4° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.8° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°22′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°28′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°21′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.8°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune
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.
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.2°
More people like William
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- Roy Lee Harmon1900
- Gwyn Thomas1936
- Alfred Kastler1902
- Charles Levendosky1936
- Marya Zaturenska1902
- Robert Roripaugh1930
Born in United States
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- James MacGregor BurnsAmerican historian and political scientist
- Margaret CoitAmerican historian
- Mary McGroryAmerican journalist and columnist
- Pete SeegerAmerican folk singer
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on January 9
- Catherine, Princess of Wales1982
- Jimmy Page1944
- Sean Paul1973
- Nicola Peltz1995
- Lee Kun-hee1942
- Dave Matthews1967
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Frank McCourtIrish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
- Leon LitwackAmerican historian
- Chuck StoneAmerican pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author
Other Capricorn Horse charts
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- Doris Kearns GoodwinAmerican biographer and historian (born 1943)
- Meg GreenfieldAmerican journalist
- Jacob BurckPolish-born Jewish-American painter & sculptor
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Yang HansenChinese basketball player (born 2005)
- Jaxson HayesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Trevi MoranAmerican musician
- Quen BlackwellAmerican YouTuber and comedian
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Oğuz AydınTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 2000)
- Matias Fernandez-PardoBelgian footballer (born 2005)
- Joan GarciaSpanish footballer (born 2001)
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
William’s cards
Computed from January 9, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1337398 (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 unknown US-Airman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Morris Meredith at Wikipedia 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 Morris Meredith.
Quick answers about William Morris Meredith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Morris Meredith?
- William Morris Meredith was a Capricorn: born January 9, 1919, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was William Morris Meredith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1919 birth.
- What was William Morris Meredith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Morris Meredith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Morris Meredith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Morris Meredith's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
