William Shockley
William Shockley (born February 13, 1910, London, United Kingdom, 09:45; died 1989), was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Time Person of the Year and National Inventors Hall of Fame.
William Shockley’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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William Shockley’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of William is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, William runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What William needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. William creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: William is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. William is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means William is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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William Shockley at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
William Shockley's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
William Shockley was born on February 13, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
William Shockley's birth date, February 13, 1910, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in William’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in William Shockley's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Venus in the 10th house and Mars in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in William Shockley's timed chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Shockley combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
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
SuntrinePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 1.5° orb
William’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 2.0° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 2.8° orb
William’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussextileSaturnapplying · 3.3° orb
William’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 4.0° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
MarssextileNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb
William’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunsextileSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiteroppositionSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
William’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MoonoppositionJupiterapplying · 5.0° orb
William’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.5° orb
William’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
UranusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 6.0° 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.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°41′ · House 10
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.
⚳ CeresAquarius 28°56′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. William is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 27°02′ · House 7
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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 11°28′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. William is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°04′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of William that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.5°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.7°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mars, Jupiter; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
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.
T-square onto Neptune · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun semi-square Moon 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Moon quintile Mercury 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.7°
- Moon semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 2.0°
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 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 10 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 12 | Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 10 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 10 | Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 6 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 12 | Mercury, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Capricorn, house 9 | Sun, Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Cancer, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 1 | Moon, Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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William’s cards
Every card is computed from February 13, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q163415, 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 Chuck Painter / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Shockley at Wikipedia 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 Shockley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Shockley?
- William Shockley was an Aquarius: born February 13, 1910, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was William Shockley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 13, 1910 birth.
- What time was William Shockley born?
- 09:45 local time in London, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was William Shockley's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 09:45 birth time in London, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was William Shockley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 13, 1910 birth date.
- What was William Shockley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 13, 1910 birth time.
- Where was William Shockley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Shockley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mars, Jupiter; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
