Hank Williams’s birth chart
Born 17 September 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Hank Williams’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
17 September 1923 was a Monday: the day Hank Williams was born in Mount Olive, Alabama. Their zodiac sign was Virgo. The Moon was in Sagittarius until about 18:15 and in Capricorn afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Hank died on 1 January 1953, aged 29. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, three are in earth signs, three in water, two in air and one in fire. Mutable signs hold four, cardinal signs three and fixed signs two. Sun, Venus and Mars all fall in Virgo. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Saturn and Neptune: a sextile, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Mercury and Uranus were retrograde. The Moon was at its first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 17 September, among them Anastacia, Jimmie Johnson and Anne Bancroft.
See the sky the day Hank was born: the stars over Mount Olive, Alabama, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Hank Williams’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 23° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Hank Williams is likely to notice what could be better and quietly make it so, keeping the highest standards for themselves. The art of this placement is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon sign
Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 18:15, then Capricorn (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 18:15: Moon in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Hank, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Born after about 18:15: Moon in Capricorn
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Hank may hold themselves together for other people, and can be hard on themselves when they cannot. This Moon tends to be restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person allowed to see them tired.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Mount Olive, Alabama, at each hour of the day.
Hank Williams’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Hank yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 17 September 1923, computed for Mount Olive, Alabama.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:20 | Cancer rising |
| 02:20 to 04:45 | Leo rising |
| 04:45 to 07:05 | Virgo rising |
| 07:05 to 09:30 | Libra rising |
| 09:30 to 11:55 | Scorpio rising |
| 11:55 to 14:10 | Sagittarius rising |
| 14:10 to 16:10 | Capricorn rising |
| 16:10 to 17:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 17:45 to 19:05 | Pisces rising |
| 19:05 to 20:25 | Aries rising |
| 20:25 to 22:00 | Taurus rising |
| 22:00 to 23:55 | Gemini rising |
| 23:55 to 24:00 | Cancer rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 17 September 1923, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 23° Virgo 45' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius until about 18:15, then Capricorn |
| Mercury | 13° Libra 40'℞ |
| Venus | 25° Virgo 43' |
| Mars | 10° Virgo 36' |
| Jupiter | 15° Scorpio 59' |
| Saturn | 19° Libra 30' |
| Uranus | 15° Pisces 14'℞ |
| Neptune | 19° Leo 13' |
| Pluto | 12° Cancer 14' |
| North Node | 11° Virgo 26' |
| South Node | 11° Pisces 26' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Hank Williams’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Hank Williams’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Hank Williams's energy tends to stay steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. Rest is the hard part, because it can feel undeserved until everything is fixed. Typically a piece of work is still being adjusted long after everyone else would call it finished.
Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 18:15, then Capricorn
needs and habits
Born before about 18:15: Moon in Sagittarius
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Hank edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Born after about 18:15: Moon in Capricorn
With the Moon in Capricorn, Hank's comfort probably comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave them oddly unsettled even on holiday. Harder feelings tend to be kept for when they are alone. Before rest is allowed there is usually one more thing to tidy, organise or finish.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Hank tends to communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. Settling on an opinion can take so long that the moment for it passes. They may change their mind in the middle of a conversation because the other point had merit.
With Venus in Virgo, Hank is likely to love through small, practical acts of service and to value competence and reliability in a partner. People with this Venus tend to be hardest on those they love most, and can mistake giving notes for giving care. They may try to fix a partner's problem before simply listening to it.
Mars in Virgo acts carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and its anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. When upset, Hank is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Scorpio
15° Scorpio 59' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Hank, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Hank, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
15° Pisces 14' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Hank has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
19° Leo 13' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Hank alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
12° Cancer 14' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Hank to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Hank Williams’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Saturn sextile Neptune
about 0.3° at midday
Hank Williams's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Jupiter trine Uranus
about 0.8° at midday
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Hank a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
Mercury square Pluto
about 1.4° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Hank looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Mars sextile Pluto
about 1.6° at midday
This sextile joins drive to depth, so resilience and follow-through are likely to be available to Hank without constant conflict. Hank is likely to handle pressure better than most, and at a lower cost than expected, largely because a fight is rarely needed to prove the point.
Sun conjunction Venus
about 2.0° at midday
Who Hank is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.
Jupiter square Neptune
about 3.2° at midday
Jupiter square Neptune lets optimism drift into wishful thinking, and plans can end up built more on hope than on a clear reading of the situation. For Hank the answer may be to keep hoping and to pair that hope with an honest look at the details.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 3.0°
- Jupiter trine Plutoabout 3.7°
- Mars opposition Uranusabout 4.6°
- Mercury conjunction Saturnabout 5.8°
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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