William P. Murphy
William P. Murphy (born February 6, 1892, Stoughton, United States; died 1987), was an American scientist. Murphy's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh.
William P. Murphy’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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William P. Murphy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of William is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with William, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. William creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. William is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of William leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. William has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
William P. Murphy's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
William P. Murphy was born on February 6, 1892, which falls in a Water 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 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
William P. Murphy's birth date, February 6, 1892, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William P. Murphy's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William P. Murphy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William P. Murphy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
William’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.6° to 2.1° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.6° orb
William’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.8° to 1.5° orb
William’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune1.5° to 2.1° orb
William’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° orb
William’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.4° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 6.6° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 14°60′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has William performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 18°00′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: William is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 16°34′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. William is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°36′ (moves 0.08° 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 LilithLibra 12°57′ (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.
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 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. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: William is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William P. Murphy, 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 February 6, 1892, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William P. Murphy, 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 Q80323, 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 The Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William P. Murphy 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 P. Murphy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William P. Murphy?
- William P. Murphy was an Aquarius: born February 6, 1892, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- What was William P. Murphy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1892 birth.
- What time was William P. Murphy 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 P. Murphy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 6, 1892 birth date.
- What was William P. Murphy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 6, 1892 birth date.
- Where was William P. Murphy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William P. Murphy's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
