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William Sadler

William Sadler (born April 13, 1950, Buffalo, United States), aged 76, is an American actor (born 1950). Sadler's honours include Saturn Awards and Clarence Derwent Awards.

William Sadler’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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William Sadler’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of William is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, William is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What William needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

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 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 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. William is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where William sits

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Intimate circleWide network
William

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
William

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

William Sadler's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

William Sadler was born on April 13, 1950, which falls in a Metal 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 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

William Sadler's birth date, April 13, 1950, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for William Sadler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.4° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.4° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 6.1° orbSun in Aries · 23°12′23°Moon in Pisces · 13°03′13°Mercury in Taurus · 9°40′Venus in Pisces · 6°52′Mars in Virgo · 24°36′ · retrograde24°Jupiter in Aquarius · 29°41′29°Saturn in Virgo · 13°25′ · retrograde13°Uranus in Cancer · 1°28′Neptune in Libra · 15°47′ · retrograde15°Pluto in Leo · 15°49′ · retrograde15°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb

    William’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.1° to 6.5° orb

    William’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb

    William’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.4° to 3.2° orb

    William’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.9° to 4.6° orb

    William’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb

    William’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.0° to 7.1° orb

    William’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.6° orb

    William’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.9° orb

    William’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.5° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 5.3° to 17.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ChironSagittarius 21°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has William building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

  • CeresSagittarius 19°47′ (moves 0.01° 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.

  • ErosTaurus 24°36′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has William wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • HygieaSagittarius 22°30′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. William is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • Black Moon LilithTaurus 10°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. William is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros trine Mars 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.6°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.1°
  • Chiron square Mars 3.0°

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. 1. Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun

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.

  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.0°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Sadler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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William’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yang Metal

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for William Sadler, 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 Q152542, 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 Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same William Sadler at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Sadler.

Quick answers about William Sadler’s chart

How old is William Sadler?
William Sadler is 76 years old, born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, United States.
What zodiac sign is William Sadler?
William Sadler is an Aries: born April 13, 1950, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
What is William Sadler's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1950 birth.
What time was William Sadler 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 is William Sadler's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 13, 1950 birth date.
What is William Sadler's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 13, 1950 birth date.
Where is William Sadler's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is William Sadler's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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