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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~4,215,725
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where William sits
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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 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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Saroyan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Libra or 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.
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
William’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineUranus4.2° to 6.0° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineUranus4.7° to 5.6° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb
William’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.5° orb
William’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 ℞Aquarius 19°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has William making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 29°35′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. William is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 6°47′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. William is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°11′ (moves 0.21° 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 LilithLeo 26°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. William is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: William is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 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 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 0.1°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Saroyan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
William’s cards
Every card is computed from August 31, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for William Saroyan, 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 Q207356, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was William Saroyan 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 Saroyan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1908 birth date.
- What was William Saroyan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1908 birth date.
- 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.
