William Redfield
William Redfield (born January 26, 1927, New York City, United States; died 1976), was an American actor.
William Redfield’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with William
William Redfield’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
The SSA recorded 51,476 American boys and 321 girls named William in 1927: 4th among boys and 382nd 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets William apart
William Redfield was 12 when the work began in 1939.
The record gives leukemia as the cause, and Long Island National Cemetery as the resting place.
William Redfield was raised one child.
Wikipedia files William Redfield under Burials at Long Island National Cemetery, Deaths from leukemia in New York (state) and United States Army personnel of World War II.
Paul Newman (1925) and Ellen DeGeneres (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Working from
- 1939
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Buried at
- Long Island National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let William be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. William creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: William is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means William is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 Redfield
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.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 41% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1976.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Redfield: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet
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 SunIdeas first, people second.
William Redfield's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 26, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
William Redfield was born on January 26, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
William Redfield's birth date, January 26, 1927, 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 Redfield's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Redfield 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 6° to 18° 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.3° to 2.0° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.0° to 1.6° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextilePluto2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.9° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.6° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.4° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 3.0° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°54′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°56′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 14°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.5°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.1°
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Also born on January 26
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Other Aquarius Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Scholars
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- Drew LockAmerican football player (born 1996)
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William’s cards
Computed from January 26, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4353606 (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 TV screenshot (CBS), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Redfield at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Redfield.
Quick answers about William Redfield’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Redfield?
- William Redfield was an Aquarius: born January 26, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was William Redfield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1927 birth.
- What was William Redfield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Redfield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Redfield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Redfield's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
