Willis Lamb
Willis Lamb (born July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, United States; died 2008), was an American physicist. Lamb's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Einstein Prize for Laser Science and National Medal of Science.
Willis Lamb’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Ox, with 
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Willis Lamb’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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~53,154
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Willis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
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
Willis, according to the stars
Core essence
Willis feels the room before entering it. The core of Willis 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 Willis, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Willis feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Willis needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Willis wants to be loved
Willis 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 Willis like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Willis creates
How Willis makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Willis builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Willis is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Willis is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Willis is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Willis'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 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Willis Lamb's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1913, 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 Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Willis Lamb was born on July 12, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Willis Lamb's birth date, July 12, 1913, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Willis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Willis Lamb's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Willis Lamb combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Willis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Willis Lamb, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° 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.
stableSunsextileMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Willis’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus1.3° to 2.3° orb
Willis’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 2.5° orb
Willis’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareMars3.3° orb
Willis’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
Willis’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb
Willis’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Willis’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.5° to 15.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Willis’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 ℞Pisces 14°51′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Willis absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°09′ (moves 0.05° 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. Willis is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLeo 12°21′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Willis loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°03′ (moves 0.25° 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. Willis is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Willis is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres opposition Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Willis’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Willis is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Willis’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 Cancer · Sun, Neptune, 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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Willis Lamb, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Willis’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1913, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Willis Lamb, 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
Willis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186497, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Willis Lamb 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 Willis Lamb’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Willis Lamb?
- Willis Lamb was a Cancer: born July 12, 1913, 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 Ox.
- What was Willis Lamb's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1913 birth.
- What time was Willis Lamb 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 Willis Lamb's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1913 birth date.
- What was Willis Lamb's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1913 birth date.
- Where was Willis Lamb's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Willis Lamb's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
