Celebrity StarMap · Songwriter

William Saroyan’s birth chart
Born August 31, 1908 in Fresno, birth time not public.
Virgo Sun · Scorpio Moon · Earth · Mutable
Sun
♍Virgo
7° Virgo 58'
You refine. You notice what could be better and quietly make it so, and your standards are highest for yourself. The art of a Virgo Sun is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon
♏Scorpio
2° Scorpio 06'
You feel everything and show little. Trust is slow, private and absolute, and betrayal is not forgotten. You are restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
William Saroyan’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♍ 7° Virgo 58' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♏ 2° Scorpio 06' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♍ 18° Virgo 15' | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♋ 22° Cancer 51' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♍ 4° Virgo 48' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♌ 27° Leo 30' | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♈ 8° Aries 52'℞ | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♑ 13° Capricorn 07'℞ | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♋ 16° Cancer 26' | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♊ 25° Gemini 43' | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♋ 2° Cancer 35' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♑ 2° Capricorn 35' |
William Saroyan's full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Virgo
♍ 7° Virgo 58'
purpose and vitality
They find purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and their energy is steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. The tension is feeling like they have not earned rest until everything is fixed. It shows up in the way they keep tweaking something long after everyone else would call it finished.
☽Moon in Scorpio
♏ 2° Scorpio 06'
needs and habits
Their emotional needs run deep and private, and they would rather manage a hard feeling alone than explain it while it is still raw. Daily trust is earned slowly and rarely given back once broken. It shows up as needing real privacy, even in a home full of people they love.
☿Mercury in Virgo
♍ 18° Virgo 15'
mind and voice
Their thinking is precise and detail oriented, and they communicate clearly because they have usually checked their facts first. The tension is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. It shows up as editing a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
♀Venus in Cancer
♋ 22° Cancer 51'
love and values
They love by nurturing, and they value emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. The tension is holding onto old hurts long after the person who caused them has changed. It shows up as feeding people, checking on people and quietly keeping score of who has shown up for they.
♂Mars in Virgo
♍ 4° Virgo 48'
drive and anger
They act carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and their anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. The tension is criticising instead of confronting when William is actually upset. It shows up as a clipped tone that signals frustration well before they say anything directly.
♃Jupiter in Leo
♌ 27° Leo 30'
growth and excess
They grow through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. The overreach is overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. It shows up as a natural showmanship that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
♄Saturn in Aries
♈ 8° Aries 52' ℞
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse, and the doubt shows up as second-guessing whether they moved too fast or not fast enough. It shows up as a slow-earned confidence in their own initiative that finally arrives once they stop rushing every decision.
♅Uranus in Capricorn
♑ 13° Capricorn 07' ℞
freedom, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and authority structures. Personally, it can show up as scepticism toward systems that ask for trust without having earned it.
♆Neptune in Cancer
♋ 16° Cancer 26'
imagination, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who idealise home and family, often carrying a wider cultural nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never have quite existed. Personally, it can show up as a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
♇Pluto in Gemini
♊ 25° Gemini 43'
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms communication and collective thought itself, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. Personally, it can show up as an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects
How the planets in William Saroyan's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
1.8° separating
Their sense of possibility and their depth cooperate, giving they acces to meaningful growth without constant upheaval. Opportunities that matter tend to find they at a manageable pace, rather than arriving all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
Mercury sextile Neptune
1.8° separating
Their thinking and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they easy access to creative and intuitive ideas. This is soft, pleasant inventiveness rather than hard analysis, useful for softening a difficult conversation without losing the point of it.
Moon sextile Mars
2.7° applying
Their feelings and their drive cooperate, making it easier to act on an emotional instinct without much overthinking. This is a useful, everyday kind of emotional courage that shows up most in the small moments nobody else notices.
Sun conjunction Mars
3.2° separating
Their will and their identity are fused, giving they strong, immediate drive and a low tolerance for sitting still. They act on impulse more often than most, and channelling that energy toward a real goal serves they better than spending it on the first thing in front of they.
- Uranus opposition Neptune3.3°
- Saturn square Uranus4.3°
- Moon sextile Jupiter4.6°
- Mercury sextile Venus4.6°
- Mercury trine Uranus5.1°
- Sun trine Uranus5.2°
- Sun sextile Moon5.9°
- Moon trine Pluto6.4°
- Venus conjunction Neptune6.4°
- Mars conjunction Jupiter7.3°
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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