William Taubman
William Taubman (born November 13, 1940, New York City, United States), aged 85, is an American political scientist. Taubman is best known for Gorbachev. His Life and Times. Taubman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Order of Friendship and Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Taubman’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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William Taubman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William does not do surface. The core of William is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from William is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. William gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. William creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: William is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. William is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. William fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
William Taubman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
William Taubman was born on November 13, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
William Taubman's birth date, November 13, 1940, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Taubman's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Taubman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for William Taubman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.3° orb
William’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.6° orb
William’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
William’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 5.1° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
William’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.1° to 7.3° orb
William’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.2° orb
William’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.7° orb
William’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 4.7° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 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 ℞Leo 1°30′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has William performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°46′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. William is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 21°29′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. William is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°03′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has William needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has William carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Eros sextile Sun 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.8°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.9°
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. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: William is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Taubman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
William’s cards
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Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for William Taubman, 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 Q32678, 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 Rodrigo Fernández, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Taubman at Wikipedia.
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 Taubman’s chart
- How old is William Taubman?
- William Taubman is 85 years old, born November 13, 1940 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is William Taubman?
- William Taubman is a Scorpio: born November 13, 1940, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- What is William Taubman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1940 birth.
- What time was William Taubman 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 is William Taubman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 13, 1940 birth date.
- What is William Taubman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 13, 1940 birth date.
- Where is William Taubman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is William Taubman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
