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Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, 18:32), aged 71, is an American actor. Willis is best known for Moonlighting, The Sixth Sense and The Fifth Element. Willis's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Bruce Willis’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Bruce Willis’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Bruce in the U.S.?

#536

US rank in 2025

~388,275

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

Bruce ranked 32nd among boys and 1,844th among girls in 1955, the year of this birth, with 14,082 American boys and 33 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bruce’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on B (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Bruce’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Bruce apart

Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900) and Glenn Close (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Bruce, according to the stars

Core essence

Bruce feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Bruce is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Bruce needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Bruce needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Bruce wants to be loved

Bruce wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Bruce be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Bruce creates

How Bruce makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Bruce creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Bruce is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Bruce 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 Bruce 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 Bruce's birth date. Working below.

Where Bruce sits

Six lines

Bruce’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Bruce

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bruce

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Bruce

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bruce

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Bruce

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bruce

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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The sky over Idar-Oberstein that night

Computed for 49.70°N, at the documented birth time.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Idar-Oberstein at the birth hour, 85.0° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

At 49.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Idar-Oberstein at all: they sit past the −40.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 22% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Bruce Willis's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Idar-Oberstein, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as strongly supportive for this chart: 79 of 100, 26th of 164 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Detroit, United States, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Bruce'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 午

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/3

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Venus

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.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Bruce Willis's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Bruce Willis's birth date, March 19, 1955, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Bruce’s chart

Bruce’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 2.5° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.6° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.9° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbSun in Pisces · 28°20′ · house 7☉28°Moon in Aquarius · 2°31′ · house 6☽2°Mercury in Pisces · 2°23′ · house 7☿2°Venus in Aquarius · 17°19′ · house 6♀17°Mars in Taurus · 14°48′ · house 9♂14°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°54′ · house 11♃19°Saturn in Scorpio · 20°53′ · house 3 · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Cancer · 23°40′ · house 11 · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Libra · 27°37′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 24°49′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞24°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 27°42′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 27°42′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 27°05′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 27°05′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb

    Bruce’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • VenussquareMarsseparating · 2.5° orb

    Bruce’s affections grind against their drive.

  • SaturntrineUranusseparating · 2.8° orb

    Bruce’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.8° orb

  • VenussquareSaturnapplying · 3.6° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusapplying · 3.8° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 4.0° orb

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 4.2° orb

  • SuntrineUranusseparating · 4.7° orb

  • MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.9° orb

  • MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.1° orb

  • VenusoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.5° orb

  • MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Bruce’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 3°52′ · House 6

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 15°40′ · House 5

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 29°04′ · House 7

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 17°12′ · House 2

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°56′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Venus 0.1°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Mars 0.9°
  • Chiron conjunction Moon 1.4°
  • Eros opposition Ascendant 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Moon 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 2.7°

Bruce’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Bruce’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon semi-sextile Mercury 0.1°
  • Moon quintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°

Bruce’s houses

Bruce’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 7emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 6Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 12Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 11emptyhome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 3emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 11Moon, Venuswork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 2Sun, Mercurypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Taurus, house 9emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 6Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 7emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 6Jupiter, Uranusfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Pisces, house 7Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Bruce’s family here

3 relatives of Bruce Willis also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Bruce’s cards

Computed from March 19, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bruce’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2680 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bruce Willis at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bruce Willis.

Quick answers about Bruce Willis’s chart

How old is Bruce Willis?
Bruce Willis is 71 years old, born March 19, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Bruce Willis?
Bruce Willis is a Pisces: born March 19, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What is Bruce Willis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 19, 1955 birth.
What time was Bruce Willis born?
18:32 local time in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Bruce Willis's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 18:32 birth time in Idar-Oberstein, Germany (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Bruce Willis's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Bruce Willis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 3°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Bruce Willis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bruce Willis's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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