William Whitehead
William Whitehead (born February 23, 1715, Cambridge, United Kingdom; died 1785), was a British Poet Laureate and playwright. Whitehead served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
William Whitehead’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with William
William Whitehead’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
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) × mutable 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
US name records start in 1880, 165 years after this birth. In that first year William ranked 2nd among boys and 287th among girls, with 9,532 American boys and 30 girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · Forest
The record
What sets William apart
William Whitehead was taught at Winchester College and Clare College.
William Whitehead lies at Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair.
On Wikipedia the categories read Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath, Writers from Cambridge and British poets laureate.
Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Winchester College and Clare College
- Buried at
- Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Kingdom of Great Britain
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of William is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show William you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. William creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means William runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to William Whitehead
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cambridge 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 Cambridge that night
Computed for 52.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Muscida stood nearest the zenith over Cambridge at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Cambridge sits at 52.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cambridge on any night.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 75% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Berkeley Square, City of Westminster in 1785.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Whitehead: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Air planets · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
William Whitehead's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1715, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
William Whitehead was born on February 23, 1715, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
William Whitehead's birth date, February 23, 1715, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Whitehead's date-only chart is Mars opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Whitehead combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.6° orb
William’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.3° orb
William’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
William’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.6° orb
stableNeptunetrinePluto0.4° orb
stableMercurytrineMars1.8° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°49′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 23°19′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°51′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°18′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.5°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 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.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.9°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
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William’s cards
Computed from February 23, 1715. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q921241 (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 Benjamin Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Whitehead 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 Whitehead.
Quick answers about William Whitehead’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Whitehead?
- William Whitehead was a Pisces: born February 23, 1715, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was William Whitehead's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1715 birth.
- What was William Whitehead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Whitehead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Whitehead's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Whitehead's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
