America Ferrera
America Ferrera (born April 18, 1984, Los Angeles, United States, 00:08), aged 42, is an American actress. Notable films include Barbie, The Good Wife and Ugly Betty. Ferrera's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award.
America Ferrera’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with America
America Ferrera’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name America in the U.S.?
#1734
US rank in 2025
~13,538
Americans share it since 1880
2005
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1984, America came 2,229th, carried by 44 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What America’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
America’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets America apart
America Ferrera took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007, at 23.
Training came by way of El Camino Real High School and University of Southern California School of International Relations.
The working life starts in 2002, at 18.
America Ferrera was married Ryan Piers Williams and raised one child.
Conan O'Brien (1963) and Haile Gebrselassie (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- El Camino Real High School, University of Southern California School of International Relations and American University
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (2007), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Television Series Musical or Comedy (2007) and BBC 100 Women (2023)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 2002
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
America, according to the stars
Core essence
America leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of America is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, America is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What America needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How America wants to be loved
America wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How America creates
How America makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. America creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: America is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. America is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means America runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from America's birth date. Working below.
Where America sits
Six lines
America’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to America Ferrera
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 00:08, America Ferrera’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Los Angeles at the birth hour: Izar of Boötes, within 11.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
The Moon, 92% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
What America's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽 in 辰
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · No Air planets · Mars retrograde
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
America Ferrera's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
America Ferrera was born on April 18, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
America Ferrera's birth date, April 18, 1984, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in America’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in America Ferrera's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in America Ferrera's timed chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- America Ferrera combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
America’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 0.2° orb
America’s affections grind against their growth.
VenustrineUranusapplying · 0.2° orb
America’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.5° orb
America’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 2.9° orb
MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 3.4° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 3.9° orb
MoonconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.2° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
America’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironGemini 0°28′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°50′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°56′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°52′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°19′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres square Ascendant 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.6°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Moon 2.1°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.1°
America’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Uranus; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in America’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.2°
- Moon semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Moon semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Moon quincunx Mercury 2.2°
America’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 11 | Jupiter, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 12 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 11 | Sun, Venus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 4 | Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 11 | Mars, Saturn, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 1 | Moon, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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America’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
America’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q219402 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same America Ferrera at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by America Ferrera.
Quick answers about America Ferrera’s chart
- How old is America Ferrera?
- America Ferrera is 42 years old, born April 18, 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is America Ferrera?
- America Ferrera is an Aries: born April 18, 1984, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time.
- What is America Ferrera's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1984 birth.
- What time was America Ferrera born?
- 00:08 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is America Ferrera's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 00:08 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is America Ferrera's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is America Ferrera's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 0°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is America Ferrera's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is America Ferrera's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Uranus; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
