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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Goat, with 
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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.
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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William Whitehead in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Whitehead, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
William’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunetrinePluto0.4° orb
William’s imagination flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineMars1.8° to 3.5° orb
William’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.6° orb
William’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb
William’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineMars2.1° to 2.8° orb
William’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.1° to 4.0° orb
William’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
William’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.4° orb
William’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°49′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresScorpio 23°19′ (moves 0.16° 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 24°51′ (moves 0.57° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°18′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
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 12°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.5°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: William is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Whitehead, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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William’s cards
Every card is computed from February 23, 1715, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for William Whitehead, 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 Q921241, 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 Benjamin Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Whitehead 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- 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 time was William Whitehead 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 was William Whitehead's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 23, 1715 birth date.
- What was William Whitehead's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 23, 1715 birth date.
- 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.
