William Randolph Hearst Jr.
William Randolph Hearst Jr. (born January 27, 1908, Manhattan, United States; died 1993), was an American newspaper editor. Hearst's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
William Randolph Hearst Jr.’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
William Randolph Hearst Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal 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
In 1908, 7,529 American boys and 45 girls were registered William — 2nd among boys and 562nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive 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
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets William apart
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
The vibe
Underneath, William feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What William needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
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 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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means William gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Randolph Hearst Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Capella, in Auriga, 83.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Manhattan 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.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 35% lit at last quarter.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars · A leaning bowl
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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
William Randolph Hearst Jr. was born on January 27, 1908, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s birth date, January 27, 1908, 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 Randolph Hearst Jr.'s date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- William Randolph Hearst Jr. combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Scorpio 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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
William’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.3° orb
William’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.6° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 16°25′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 7°19′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 23°34′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Eros square Sun 0.9°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.5°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.2°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
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More charts like William’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- George F. KennanAmerican advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
- Robert N. ButlerAmerican academic
- Mel PowellAmerican composer
Born in Goat years
- Tim Berners-LeeEnglish computer scientist
- Alexander Graham BellCanadian-American scientist inventor of telephone
- Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
- Georgina Rodríguez1994
- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Michele Morrone AlgoesItalian actor, singer, and fashion designer
- Taylor Marie HillAmerican model
- Coco JonesAmerican actress and singer
Other Aquarius Goat charts
- Jason IsbellAmerican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1979)
- Matthew LawrenceAmerican actor
- Joe PesciAmerican actor
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Colby ParkinsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- DKMember of Korean pop group Seventeen
- HeeseungSouth Korean singer
- Jett HowardAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Brian DennehyAmerican actor
- Henry TraversBritish-American actor
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
William’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
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 Q8017363 (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.
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Quick answers about William Randolph Hearst Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Randolph Hearst Jr.?
- William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an Aquarius: born January 27, 1908, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1908 birth.
- What was William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
