William O. Dapping
William O. Dapping (born June 21, 1880, New York City, United States; died 1969), was an American journalist. Dapping's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
William O. Dapping’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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William O. Dapping’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
US Social Security Administration public records
William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William feels the room before entering it. The core of William is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for William, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, William is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What William needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to William like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means William fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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William O. Dapping at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
William O. Dapping's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 21, 1880, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonBorn for the big room.
William O. Dapping was born on June 21, 1880, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
William O. Dapping's birth date, June 21, 1880, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William O. Dapping's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- William O. Dapping combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William O. Dapping, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Sagittarius 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.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.2° to 1.8° orb
William’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
William’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.3° to 4.1° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 5.4° orb
William’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.8° to 4.3° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.3° orb
William’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.1° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.5° to 5.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 5.1° to 20.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has William building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 5°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has William caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 2°38′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. William is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°20′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. William is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of William that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.7°
- Eros trine Sun 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 2.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.9°
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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: William is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William O. Dapping, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
William’s cards
Every card is computed from June 21, 1880, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William O. Dapping, 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 Q86747356, 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.
The same William O. Dapping 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.
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Quick answers about William O. Dapping’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William O. Dapping?
- William O. Dapping was a Cancer: born June 21, 1880, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
- What was William O. Dapping's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 21, 1880 birth.
- What time was William O. Dapping 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 O. Dapping's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 21, 1880 birth date.
- What was William O. Dapping's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 21, 1880 birth date.
- Where was William O. Dapping's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William O. Dapping's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
