William Sowden Sims
William Sowden Sims (born October 15, 1858, Port Hope, Canada; died 1936), was an United States admiral. Sims's honours include Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, Pulitzer Prize for History and Navy Distinguished Service Medal.
William Sowden Sims’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with William
William Sowden Sims’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
No US figure exists for 1858 — the SSA series begins 22 years later. William opened it at 2nd among boys and 287th among girls, 9,532 American boys and 30 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets William apart
David Trezeguet (1977) and Fela Kuti (1938) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of William is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with William and watch them fall for you again.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. William creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: William is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. William is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means William does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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
Dedicate a star to William Sowden Sims
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Port Hope 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 Port Hope that night
Computed for 44.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Port Hope at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.0° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
At 44.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Port Hope at all: they sit past the −46.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 60% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
William Sowden Sims's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 15, 1858, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
William Sowden Sims was born on October 15, 1858, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
William Sowden Sims's birth date, October 15, 1858, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Sowden Sims' date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- William Sowden Sims combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.3° to 2.0° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.2° orb
William’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrinePluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.3° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.8° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.3° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°24′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 28°00′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 10°20′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 7°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.7°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.7°
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- Fela Kuti1938
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William’s cards
Computed from October 15, 1858. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2600765 (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 user:RJHall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Sowden Sims at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Sowden Sims.
Quick answers about William Sowden Sims’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Sowden Sims?
- William Sowden Sims was a Libra: born October 15, 1858, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was William Sowden Sims's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 15, 1858 birth.
- What was William Sowden Sims's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Sowden Sims's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Sowden Sims's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Sowden Sims's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
