William Saroyan
William Saroyan (born August 31, 1908, Fresno, United States; died 1981), was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Saroyan is best remembered for Seventy thousand Assyrians, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram. Saroyan's honours include Academy Award for Best Story and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
William Saroyan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with William
William Saroyan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
The SSA recorded 7,529 American boys and 45 girls named William in 1908: 2nd among boys and 562nd 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.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets William apart
Richard Gere (1949) and Queen Rania of Jordan (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of William is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. William gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. William is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fresno 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 Fresno that night
Computed for 36.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Fresno at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Fresno sits at 36.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −53.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fresno on any night.
The Moon, 24% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Virgo
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
William Saroyan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
William Saroyan was born on August 31, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
William Saroyan's birth date, August 31, 1908, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Saroyan's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- William Saroyan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.9° to 2.7° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.3° orb
William’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.2° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 19°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 29°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°47′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.1°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
More people like William
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Born in United States
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More charts like William’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Rose McGowanAmerican actress, director and activist
- Jason DeruloAmerican singer-songwriter
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Born in Monkey years
- Ray BradburyAmerican author and screenwriter
- Chris PineAmerican actor
- Johnny CashAmerican country singer
Also born on August 31
- Richard Gere1949
- Queen Rania of Jordan1970
- Chris Tucker1971
- Jang Won-young2004
- Maxine Waters1938
- Debbie Gibson1970
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- John CusackAmerican actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1966)
- Jamie ChungAmerican actress
- Chace CrawfordAmerican actor
Other Virgo Monkey charts
- David PopoviciRomanian swimmer
- Iam TongiAmerican singer
- Fred MacMurrayAmerican actor
- Anthony HealdAmerican actor
Other Steadfast Healers
- Céline DionFrench Canadian singer
- Judy GarlandAmerican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
- Audrey HepburnBritish actress
- Robert KochGerman physician, bacteriologist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Dennis GaborNobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
- Tom HardyBritish actor
- Abdus SalamTheoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
William’s cards
Computed from August 31, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207356 (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 Al Aumuller, World-Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Saroyan 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 Saroyan.
Quick answers about William Saroyan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Saroyan?
- William Saroyan was a Virgo: born August 31, 1908, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was William Saroyan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1908 birth.
- What was William Saroyan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Saroyan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Saroyan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Saroyan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
