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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with William
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
The SSA recorded 43,280 American boys and 238 girls named William in 1931: 4th among boys and 419th 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4).
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets William apart
The record William Shatner is measured by: T. J. Hooker, The Practice and Star Trek series.
The schooling ran through Montreal Children's Theatre and Desautels Faculty of Management.
William Shatner was 20 when the work began in 1951.
The family line: married Nerine Kidd and Marcy Lafferty and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files William Shatner under Canadian male equestrians, Anglophone Quebec people and Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (television) winners.
Burton Richter shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- T. J. Hooker, The Practice and Star Trek series
- Educated at
- Montreal Children's Theatre, Desautels Faculty of Management and Camp Massad
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- WWE Hall of Fame (2020), Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor (1990) and Canada's Walk of Fame (2000)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- Working from
- 1951
- Sport
- karate
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 79
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. 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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Notre-Dame-de-Grâce at 04:00, William Shatner’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Notre-Dame-de-Grâce that night
Computed for 45.48°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was Edasich, in Draco, 75.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce at all: they sit past the −44.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 8% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as William Shatner's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What William's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Breaker 破軍 in 丑
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
JupitersquareUranusseparating · 3.7° orb
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
VenussextileUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 5.6° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.4° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnseparating · 6.7° orb
MercuryconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.3° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°38′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 10°42′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 6°48′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 10°59′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°39′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.3°
- Eros trine Moon 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 2.6°
William’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in William’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
William’s houses
| 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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12Born the same day as William
Burton Richter was born on March 22, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, at 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
William’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16297 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Shatner at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, YouTube 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 Shatner.
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.
- 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.
- What is William Shatner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
