William S. McFeely
William S. McFeely (born September 25, 1930, New York City, United States; died 2019), was an American historian. McFeely's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Guggenheim Fellowship and Francis Parkman Prize.
William S. McFeely’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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William S. McFeely’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Blush · Silver
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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of William is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with William even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. William is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means William does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
William S. McFeely's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
William S. McFeely was born on September 25, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
William S. McFeely's birth date, September 25, 1930, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William S. McFeely's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- William S. McFeely combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William S. McFeely, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° 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.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 0.7° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 0.9° orb
William’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.1° orb
William’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus2.7° to 3.3° orb
William’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrinePluto2.8° to 3.7° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.1° to 4.1° orb
William’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
William’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.1° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.1° orb
William’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
William’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto6.9° orb
William’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has William building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 3°04′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has William caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosGemini 19°23′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. William is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 17°16′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has William needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 24°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has William at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Venus 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.4°
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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: William is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William S. McFeely, 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 September 25, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William S. McFeely, 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 Q8017981, 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.
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Quick answers about William S. McFeely’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William S. McFeely?
- William S. McFeely was a Libra: born September 25, 1930, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was William S. McFeely's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1930 birth.
- What time was William S. McFeely 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 S. McFeely's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 25, 1930 birth date.
- What was William S. McFeely's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 25, 1930 birth date.
- Where was William S. McFeely's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William S. McFeely's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
