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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
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
William ranked 2nd among boys and 405th among girls in 1892, the year of this birth, with 7,782 American boys and 44 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4).
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
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
The record
What sets William apart
William P. Murphy took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, at 42.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and University of Oregon.
William P. Murphy was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put William P. Murphy under People from Stoughton, Wisconsin, Medical doctors from Oregon and University of Oregon alumni.
Ronald Reagan (1911) and Bob Marley (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon and Harvard Medical School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
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. 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 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.
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 P. Murphy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stoughton 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 Stoughton that night
Computed for 42.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stoughton was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 86.1° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stoughton at all: they sit past the −47.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 69% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Stoughton, United States
The death is recorded at Brookline, Norfolk County in 1987.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William P. Murphy: 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
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · 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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMarsoppositionNeptune1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 14°60′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 18°00′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 16°34′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°36′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
William’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
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William’s cards
Computed from February 6, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80323 (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 The Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William P. Murphy 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 P. Murphy.
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.
- 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 was William P. Murphy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was William P. Murphy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
