Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948, Kansas City, United States), aged 78, is an American actress. Wiest's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Dianne Wiest’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Dianne
Dianne Wiest’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 Dianne in the U.S.?
#5775
US rank in 2025
~95,475
Americans share it since 1911
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1948, Dianne came 86th among girls and 2,656th among boys, carried by 4,138 American girls and 9 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dianne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dianne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Dianne apart
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) and Amancio Ortega (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dianne, according to the stars
Core essence
Dianne 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 Dianne 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.
How Dianne wants to be loved
Dianne wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Dianne is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Dianne creates
How Dianne makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Dianne 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: Dianne 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Dianne 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Dianne fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Dianne's birth date. Working below.
Where Dianne sits
Six lines
Dianne’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Dianne Wiest
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Kansas City that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kansas City was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 81.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 81% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual Dianne's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Dianne Wiest's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 28, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Dianne Wiest was born on March 28, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Dianne Wiest's birth date, March 28, 1948, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Dianne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dianne Wiest's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dianne Wiest 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.
Dianne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Dianne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.0° orb
Dianne’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
Dianne’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.4° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Dianne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 24°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°54′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°33′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°49′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.1°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.5°
- Ceres square Mars 1.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.9°
Dianne’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Dianne’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.9°
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Born in United States
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- Anthony R. DolanSpeechwriter to Ronald Reagan
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More charts like Dianne’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Heath LedgerAustralian actor
- Eddie MurphyAmerican actor and comedian
- Seamus HeaneyIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Born in Rat years
- Hamdi UlukayaTurkish businessperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972)
- Jörn RausingSwedish businessman
- Abdul Samad RabiuNigerian businessman
Also born on March 28
- Mario Vargas Llosa1936
- Amancio Ortega1936
- Jackson Wang1994
- Quan Hongchan2007
- D4vd2005
- Alex Wassabi1990
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Don BartlettiAmerican photojournalist
- Michael D’AntonioAmerican journalist and writer
- Alfred AustinBritish writer and poet
Other Aries Rat charts
- Ian McDonaldBritish science fiction novelist (1960–)
- Joan D. VingeAmerican writer
- Dan SimmonsAmerican novelist
- Jeanne RobinsonCanadian choreographer
Other Tidal Strategists
- Whitney Wolfe HerdAmerican businesswoman
- Tamar BraxtonAmerican singer
- Ayesha CurryCanadian actress
- Lynsey AddarioAmerican photojournalist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer and poet
- Knut HamsunNorwegian novelist
- Yasunari KawabataJapanese novelist
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Dianne’s cards
Computed from March 28, 1948. 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
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dianne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217573 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by MC1 Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dianne Wiest at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dianne Wiest.
Quick answers about Dianne Wiest’s chart
- How old is Dianne Wiest?
- Dianne Wiest is 78 years old, born March 28, 1948 in Kansas City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dianne Wiest?
- Dianne Wiest is an Aries: born March 28, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Dianne Wiest's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 28, 1948 birth.
- What is Dianne Wiest's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dianne Wiest's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dianne Wiest's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dianne Wiest's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
