William Wyler
William Wyler (born July 1, 1902, Mulhouse, France; died 1981), was a Swiss-German-American director and producer. Wyler is best remembered for Carrie, The Letter and Friendly Persuasion. Wyler's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Palme d'Or and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
William Wyler’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with William
William Wyler’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood 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
The SSA recorded 6,617 American boys and 25 girls named William in 1902: 2nd among boys and 687th among girls for the year.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4).
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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
The record
What sets William apart
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) 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 feels the room before entering it. The core of William is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for William, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, William is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What William needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How William wants to be loved
William wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to William like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. William creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. William scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Wyler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mulhouse 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 Mulhouse that night
Computed for 47.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Mulhouse at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.5° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
At 47.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Mulhouse at all: they sit past the −42.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 19% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual William's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A leaning bowl
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
William Wyler's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
William Wyler was born on July 1, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
William Wyler's birth date, July 1, 1902, 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 Wyler's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- William Wyler combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Taurus 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
stableUranusoppositionPluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
William’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.2° to 1.0° orb
William’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.3° to 2.0° orb
William’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.5° to 17.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Capricorn 11°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 0°21′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 21°20′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 21°06′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.7°
William’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.1°
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- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
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- Liv Tyler1977
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William’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51495 (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 Film studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Wyler at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Wyler.
Quick answers about William Wyler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Wyler?
- William Wyler was a Cancer: born July 1, 1902, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was William Wyler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1902 birth.
- What was William Wyler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Wyler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Wyler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Wyler's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
