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William Westmoreland

William Westmoreland (born March 26, 1914, Spartanburg, United States; died 2005), was an United States Army general. Westmoreland held office as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Westmoreland's honours include National Order of Vietnam, Order of the White Elephant and Time Person of the Year.

William Westmoreland’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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William Westmoreland’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Strategist

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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

In 1914, 29,753 American boys and 97 girls were registered William — 2nd among boys and 576th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

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

9

Soul Urge · meaning

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green

The record

What sets William apart

Richard Dawkins (1941) and Larry Page (1973) 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 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.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: 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.

Intimate circleWide network
William

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
William

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Spartanburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

William’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 77.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 18.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Spartanburg that night

Computed for 34.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Spartanburg was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 77.3° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Spartanburg sits at 34.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Spartanburg at all: they sit past the −55.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual William's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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.

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Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

William Westmoreland's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Wood Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

William Westmoreland was born on March 26, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

William Westmoreland's birth date, March 26, 1914, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 0.5° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.3° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 3° orbSun in Aries · 5°12′☉5°Moon in Aries · 4°41′☽4°Mercury in Pisces · 11°20′☿11°Venus in Aries · 15°46′♀15°Mars in Cancer · 14°17′♂14°Jupiter in Aquarius · 14°08′♃14°Saturn in Gemini · 12°52′♄12°Uranus in Aquarius · 10°34′♅10°Neptune in Cancer · 25°28′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Gemini · 29°06′♇29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 5.9° orb

    William’s core identity and feelings act as one.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.0° to 1.9° orb

    William’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter1.1° to 2.2° orb

    William’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineMars2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 15°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 12°59′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 15°58′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°33′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
  • Chiron trine Mars 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.4°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.9°

William’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 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.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

William’s cards

Computed from March 26, 1914. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298793 (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.

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Quick answers about William Westmoreland’s chart

What zodiac sign was William Westmoreland?
William Westmoreland was an Aries: born March 26, 1914, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was William Westmoreland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1914 birth.
What was William Westmoreland's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was William Westmoreland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was William Westmoreland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was William Westmoreland's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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