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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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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
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 · 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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for William Redfield, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Scorpio 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.
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
William’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars3.7° to 4.6° orb
William’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
William’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.9° to 5.2° orb
William’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.6° to 5.8° orb
William’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: William may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°54′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. William is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 11°56′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. William is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLibra 14°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. William is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has William exacting with themselves first.
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 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°
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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: William is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
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 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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Redfield, 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 January 26, 1927, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for William Redfield, 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 Q4353606, 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 TV screenshot (CBS), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Redfield at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- 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 time was William Redfield 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 Redfield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 26, 1927 birth date.
- What was William Redfield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 26, 1927 birth date.
- 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.
