William Rose Benét
William Rose Benét (born February 2, 1886, Brooklyn, United States; died 1950), was an American writer. Benét's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
William Rose Benét’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with William
William Rose Benét’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 364th among girls in 1886, the year of this birth, with 8,252 American boys and 35 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets William apart
William Rose Benét took the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1942, at 56.
Yale University shaped the training.
The grave is at Ferncliff Cemetery.
The family line: born to Frances Rose Benét and James Walker Benét, married Elinor Wylie and Marjorie Flack and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put William Rose Benét under The Albany Academy alumni, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni and American people of Catalan descent.
Shakira (1977) and Ayn Rand (1905) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1942)
- Buried at
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. William creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: William is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. William is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means William channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Rose Benét
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1950.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Rose Benét: 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
66 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · Grand trine · No Fire planets
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 SunAhead of the room by a decade.
William Rose Benét's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
William Rose Benét was born on February 2, 1886, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
William Rose Benét's birth date, February 2, 1886, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Rose Benét's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- William Rose Benét combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 5.4° orb
William’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.7° to 3.3° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.8° orb
William’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.0° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.1° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°47′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 1°30′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 6°16′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.6°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.8°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.8°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
William’s family here
One relative of William Rose Benét also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
William’s cards
Computed from February 2, 1886. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2580418 (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.
The same William Rose Benét at Wikipedia 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 Rose Benét.
Quick answers about William Rose Benét’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Rose Benét?
- William Rose Benét was an Aquarius: born February 2, 1886, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was William Rose Benét's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1886 birth.
- What was William Rose Benét's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Rose Benét's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Rose Benét's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Rose Benét's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
