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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where William sits
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Morris Meredith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Aries 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 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
William’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.9° orb
William’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°22′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has William absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAquarius 4°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. William is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°28′ (moves 0.72° 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.
⚕ HygieaAries 14°21′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has William feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of William that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 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°
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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: William is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Morris Meredith, 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 9, 1919, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for William Morris Meredith, 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 Q1337398, 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 unknown US-Airman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Morris Meredith at Wikipedia 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was William Morris Meredith 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 Morris Meredith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 9, 1919 birth date.
- What was William Morris Meredith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 9, 1919 birth date.
- 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.
