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Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack (born October 11, 1962, New York City, United States), aged 63, is an American actress. Cusack is best known for Toy Story 5, Klaus and Toy Story 4. Cusack's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Annie Award and Theatre World Award.

Joan Cusack’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Joan Cusack’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#987

US rank in 2025

~488,939

Americans share it since 1880

1932

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Joan, according to the stars

Core essence

Joan makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Joan is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Joan is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Joan needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Joan wants to be loved

Joan wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Joan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Joan creates

How Joan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joan 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: Joan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Joan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Computed from Joan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Joan sits

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Joan’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Joan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joan

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

PrivateExpressive
Joan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Joan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joan

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

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The quick version

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Joan Cusack's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Joan Cusack was born on October 11, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Joan Cusack's birth date, October 11, 1962, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Joan’s chart

Joan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Joan Cusack, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.9° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 4.6° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.9° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 7.4° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 7.8° orbSun in Libra · 17°51′17°Moon in Pisces · 21°21′21°Mercury in Libra · 7°56′ · retrogradeVenus in Scorpio · 25°14′25°Mars in Cancer · 29°49′29°Jupiter in Pisces · 3°21′ · retrogradeSaturn in Aquarius · 4°46′Uranus in Virgo · 3°42′Neptune in Scorpio · 12°17′12°Pluto in Virgo · 11°08′11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Joan’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Joan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.8° to 3.5° orb

    Joan’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineMars4.5° to 4.7° orb

    Joan’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.2° orb

    Joan’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.5° orb

    Joan’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb

    Joan’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 1.2° to 15.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 1.6° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 2.7° to 17.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironPisces 6°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Joan absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresLeo 23°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Joan is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ErosVirgo 13°54′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Joan is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • HygieaAquarius 24°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Joan is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • Black Moon LilithLibra 8°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Joan that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.9°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 2.8°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Joan’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Mercury3 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Joan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Joan’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joan Cusack, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Joan’s family here

One relative of Joan Cusack also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Joan

Anne Enright was born on October 11, 1962 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Joan’s cards

Every card is computed from October 11, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Joan Cusack, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272946, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Anthony Quintano from Hillsborough, NJ, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joan Cusack at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Joan Cusack.

Quick answers about Joan Cusack’s chart

How old is Joan Cusack?
Joan Cusack is 63 years old, born October 11, 1962 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Joan Cusack?
Joan Cusack is a Libra: born October 11, 1962, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
What is Joan Cusack's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1962 birth.
What time was Joan Cusack born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Joan Cusack's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 11, 1962 birth date.
What is Joan Cusack's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 11, 1962 birth date.
Where is Joan Cusack's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joan Cusack's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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