Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack (born October 11, 1962, New York City, United States), aged 64, 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, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Joan
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
In 1962, 4,879 American girls and 22 boys were registered Joan — 94th among girls and 1,732nd among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1962, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joan apart
Toy Story 2, Toy Story 5 and Toy Story 4. That is the work the name is attached to.
Study took Joan Cusack to Evanston Township High School and Piven Theatre Workshop.
Joan Cusack was 17 when the work began in 1979.
On the family side, Joan Cusack was born to Dick Cusack.
Anne Enright shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Toy Story 2, Toy Story 5 and Toy Story 4
- Educated at
- Evanston Township High School, Piven Theatre Workshop and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1989) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2015)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1979
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
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. Working below.
Where Joan sits
Six lines
Joan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Joan Cusack
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
How unusual Joan's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair 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.
What Libra means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Joan Cusack was born on October 11, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Joan Cusack's birth date, October 11, 1962, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Joan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joan Cusack's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
- Joan Cusack combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Joan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 23°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 13°54′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 24°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°44′ (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 conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.9°
- Ceres square Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 2.8°
Joan’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Joan’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.
- 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°
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 and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Joan
Other actors
- Matthew Broderick1962
- Johnny Depp1963
- Rosie O'Donnell1962
- Kathy Ireland1963
- Marcia Cross1962
- Vanessa Williams1963
Born in United States
- Tom CruiseAmerican actor and producer
- Kate SpadeAmerican fashion designer
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Doug WrightAmerican playwright and screenwriter (born 1962)
- Gigi PritzkerAmerican billionaire and film producer
- Felicity HuffmanAmerican actress
More charts like Joan’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Michael Bambang HartonoIndonesian businessman
- Denise CoatesEnglish businesswoman
- Anthony SalimIndonesian businessman
Born in Tiger years
- Alexandra DaddarioAmerican actress
- Elle FanningAmerican actress
- Steve CarellAmerican actor and comedian
Also born on October 11
- Amitabh Bachchan1942
- Michelle Trachtenberg1985
- Amr Diab1961
- Peter Thiel1967
- Matt Bomer1977
- Rei Kawakubo1942
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Don HankeyAmerican businessman
- Nassef SawirisEgyptian billionaire businessman
- Timur KulibayevKazakhstani businessman
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Andre SzmytAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Kalia DavisAmerican football defensive tackle
- Patrick Jones IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Devin LloydAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Charles KelleyAmerican musician
- Vanessa KirbyBritish actress (born 1987)
- Meghan KingAmerican television personality
- Leona LewisBritish singer (born 1985)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Conrad AikenAmerican novelist and poet
- James AgeeAmerican author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic
- Nick UtVietnamese photographer (b. 1951)
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Joan’s cards
Computed from October 11, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272946 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joan Cusack.
Quick answers about Joan Cusack’s chart
- How old is Joan Cusack?
- Joan Cusack is 64 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.
- 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 is Joan Cusack's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joan Cusack's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
