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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with William
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
The SSA recorded 9,532 American boys and 30 girls named William in 1880: 2nd among boys and 287th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against 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
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
The record
What sets William apart
The Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards came in 1930, when William O. Dapping was 50.
The schooling ran through Harvard College.
Wikipedia files William O. Dapping under Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards winners, American reporters and correspondents and Harvard College alumni.
Benazir Bhutto (1953) and Chris Pratt (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1930)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
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. Working below.
Where William sits
Six lines
William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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
Dedicate a star to William O. Dapping
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Izar, in Boötes, 76.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Auburn, Cayuga County in 1969.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William O. Dapping: 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
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 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 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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Sagittarius 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
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
stableMarstrineJupiter3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 5°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°38′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°20′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
William’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.9°
More people like William
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- Buford Boone1909
- Austin C. Wehrwein1916
- Anthony Lewis1927
- Elliot G. Jaspin1946
- Barbara Strauch1951
Born in United States
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- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Henry JamesAmerican biographer
- George MarshallAmerican army officer and statesman
- Josephine HullAmerican stage and film actress
- James FarleyAmerican actor
More charts like William’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Madeleine VionnetFrench fashion designer
- Hilary KnightAmerican ice hockey player
- Hedi SlimaneFrench Tunisian fashion designer
Born in Dragon years
- Alan CummingBritish actor
- Winston ReidNew Zealand association football player
- Jenny ShipleyNew Zealand politician
Also born on June 21
- Benazir Bhutto1953
- Chris Pratt1979
- Joko Widodo1961
- Shirin Ebadi1947
- William, Prince of Wales1982
- Scottie Scheffler1996
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Jodie FosterAmerican actress and filmmaker
- Luciano PavarottiItalian operatic tenor
- Ringo StarrBritish musician, drummer for the Beatles
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Renée Jeanne FalconettiFrench actress
- Olivia de HavillandBritish actress
- Thomas MitchellAmerican actor, playwright and screenwriter
- James BrolinAmerican actor (born 1940)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Kodi Smit-McPheeAustralian actor
- William WestmorelandUnited States Army general
- Alain ConnesFrench mathematician
- Sergei NovikovSoviet and Russian mathematician
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Henry KammGerman-American journalist
- Carol ShieldsAmerican/Canadian author
- Gian Carlo MenottiItalian-American composer and librettist
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
William’s cards
Computed from June 21, 1880. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q86747356 (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.
The same William O. Dapping 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 O. Dapping.
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.
- 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 was William O. Dapping's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was William O. Dapping's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
