William Shatner
William Shatner (born March 22, 1931, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada, 04:00), aged 95, is a Canadian actor. Shatner is best known for Star Trek series, The Practice and T. J. Hooker. Shatner's honours include WWE Hall of Fame, 57th Primetime Emmy Awards and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
William Shatner’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Goat, with 
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William Shatner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · 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 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 calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What William needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let William be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. William creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: William is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: 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.
Where William sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
William Shatner's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. 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 Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
William Shatner's birth date, March 22, 1931, 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
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in William Shatner's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house and Venus in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in William Shatner's timed chart is Moon trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- William Shatner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
William’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 0.5° orb
William’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineMarsseparating · 2.3° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 3.1° orb
William’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb
William’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquareUranusseparating · 3.7° orb
William’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
William’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussextileUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
William’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 5.6° orb
William’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.4° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarsoppositionSaturnseparating · 6.7° orb
William’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
MercuryconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.3° orb
William’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.9° orb
William’s growth and depths act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°38′ · House 4
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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 10°42′ · House 9
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.
♡ ErosVirgo 6°48′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. William is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 10°59′ · House 5
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 LilithPisces 14°39′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. William is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.3°
- Eros trine Moon 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 2.6°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: William is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
William’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 3 | Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 8 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 6 | Sun, Mercury, Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 4 | Mars, Jupiter, Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 3 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 12 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Burton Richter was born on March 22, 1931 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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William’s cards
Every card is computed from March 22, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16297, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about William Shatner’s chart
- How old is William Shatner?
- William Shatner is 95 years old, born March 22, 1931 in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is William Shatner?
- William Shatner is an Aries: born March 22, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat.
- What is William Shatner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1931 birth.
- What time was William Shatner born?
- 04:00 local time in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is William Shatner's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 04:00 birth time in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is William Shatner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the March 22, 1931 birth date.
- What is William Shatner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 22, 1931 birth time.
- Where is William Shatner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Shatner's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
