Image: Wikimedia CommonsSport · August 30, 1918 · San Diego
Ted Williams's Birth Chart
Sun in Virgo · Moon in Gemini ≈
Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "the Thumper", Williams is widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Wikipedia
Sun in Virgo
6°17′Your centre is craft: improving what you touch, serving with precision, finding the sacred in the detail. Your identity is refined through order, useful observation and continuous improvement. You find meaning in being of help, optimising processes and understanding how the whole works.
Moon in Gemini
27°21′Your emotions ask for words: to name them, tell them, understand them in conversation. You process what you feel through thought and speech. Your emotional security comes from understanding your experiences, voicing them and keeping your mind open and flexible.
the Moon changed sign that day
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Ted Williams, so this chart doesn't set it. Their planets by sign, however, remain reliable.
Section II · The map
Their natal wheel
The sky on the day they were born. The outer ring is the twelve signs; the lines across the centre, the aspects between planets. Without a birth time, houses and the Ascendant aren't drawn.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Ted Williams's placements
We compute the placements for the day of birth. Without the exact time the Ascendant and houses can't be fixed, but each planet's sign is reliable.
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 6°17′ |
| Moon | Gemini | 27°21′ |
| Mercury | Virgo ℞ | 11°12′ |
| Venus | Leo | 14°22′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 8°28′ |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 9°41′ |
| Saturn | Leo | 20°29′ |
| Uranus | Aquarius ℞ | 25°18′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 7°56′ |
| Pluto | Cancer | 6°23′ |
Beyond the planets
Three keys beyond the ten classical planets, which astrology reads as axes of the chart. All four angles need your birth time.
The wounded healer: a small icy body between Saturn and Uranus. It marks the wound that, once moved through, teaches.
Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.
The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.
Ted Williams's aspects
Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other. Aspects to the Moon are approximate: they depend on the exact birth time.
Elements and modalities
How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.
Section IV · The signature
The signature of their sky
The whole at a glance: how the planets are spread, and the accents that set the overall tone of the chart.
Bucket
A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Fire and the Fixed modality.
Pluto is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Leo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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