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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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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
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William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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William Wyler in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for William Wyler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° 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.
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
William’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.2° orb
William’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
William’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.9° orb
William’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.1° to 6.4° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb
William’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Capricorn 11°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. William is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresCancer 0°21′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. William is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 21°20′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has William wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 21°06′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. William is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has William leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: William is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Wyler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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William’s cards
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☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for William Wyler, 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 Q51495, 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 Film studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same William Wyler at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- 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 time was William Wyler 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 Wyler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 1, 1902 birth date.
- What was William Wyler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 1, 1902 birth date.
- 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.
