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Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst (born April 30, 1982, Point Pleasant, United States, 13:00), aged 44, is an American actress. Notable films include Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. Dunst's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture and Empire Award for Best Actress.

Kirsten Dunst’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Kirsten Dunst’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2841

US rank in 2025

~53,393

Americans share it since 1937

1991

its peak year

In 1982, 740 American girls and 6 boys were registered Kirsten — 328th among girls and 6,046th among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kirsten’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

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

Kirsten’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1982, 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 Kirsten apart

The MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance came in 1995, when Kirsten Dunst was 13.

Kirsten Dunst was taught at Ranney School and Notre Dame High School.

Kirsten Dunst was married Jesse Plemons and raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from Ocean County, New Jersey, Naturalized citizens of Germany and Female models from New Jersey.

Claude Shannon (1916) and Ana de Armas (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Ranney School and Notre Dame High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (2003), MTV Movie Award for Best Performance (2003) and MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance (1995)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actress and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1988
Citizenship
United States and Germany
Languages
German and English
Wikipedia editions
102

What the chart says

Kirsten, according to the stars

Core essence

Kirsten is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Kirsten is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Kirsten needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Kirsten needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Kirsten wants to be loved

Kirsten wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Kirsten, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Kirsten creates

How Kirsten makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Kirsten creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Kirsten is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kirsten is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Kirsten fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Kirsten's birth date. Working below.

Where Kirsten sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kirsten

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kirsten

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kirsten

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kirsten

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Kirsten

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kirsten

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Point Pleasant at 13:00, Kirsten Dunst’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Point Pleasant that night

Computed for 40.08°N, at the documented birth time.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Point Pleasant at the birth hour, 84.2° above the horizon in Perseus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

Point Pleasant sits at 40.1°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 Point Pleasant at all: they sit past the −49.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 52% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -65° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Point Pleasant, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

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

Against Point Pleasant, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as supportive for this chart: 74 of 100, 44th of 170 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Athens, Greece, 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 Kirsten's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Warrior 武曲 in 戌

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 3/5

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

6 planets retrograde · T-square onto Neptune · 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 →

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Kirsten Dunst's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Kirsten Dunst was born on April 30, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Kirsten Dunst's birth date, April 30, 1982, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Kirsten’s chart

Kirsten’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.4° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.5° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.9° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.4° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Taurus · 10°01′ · house 10☉10°Moon in Leo · 12°37′ · house 1☽12°Mercury in Taurus · 28°41′ · house 10☿28°Venus in Pisces · 25°46′ · house 8♀25°Mars in Libra · 1°10′ · house 3 · retrograde♂℞1°Jupiter in Scorpio · 4°52′ · house 4 · retrograde♃℞4°Saturn in Libra · 17°19′ · house 3 · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Sagittarius · 3°33′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Sagittarius · 26°46′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Libra · 25°08′ · house 3 · retrograde♇℞25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 19°45′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 19°45′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 11°41′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 11°41′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 1.0° orb

    Kirsten’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.6° orb

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

  • MarssextileUranusseparating · 2.4° orb

    Kirsten’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurytrineMarsapplying · 2.5° orb

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 2.6° orb

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 2.9° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 4.4° orb

  • MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb

  • MercuryoppositionUranusapplying · 4.9° orb

  • SunoppositionJupiterseparating · 5.2° orb

  • VenusoppositionMarsapplying · 5.4° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 21°48′ · House 10

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 21°41′ · House 4

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 16°37′ · House 1

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 29°50′ · House 12

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°16′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.5°
  • Ceres square Ascendant 1.9°
  • Chiron square Ascendant 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.5°

Kirsten’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun11 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Kirsten’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Mars, NeptuneAn 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 quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Venus 1.8°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.9°

Kirsten’s houses

Kirsten’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Taurus, house 10Moonself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Pisces, house 8Mars, Saturn, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 3Jupiterhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 4Uranus, Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 5Venusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Libra, house 3emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 8Sun, Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 10emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Leo, house 1emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Kirsten’s family here

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Kirsten’s cards

Computed from April 30, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kirsten’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76478 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kirsten Dunst at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Kirsten Dunst.

Quick answers about Kirsten Dunst’s chart

How old is Kirsten Dunst?
Kirsten Dunst is 44 years old, born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kirsten Dunst?
Kirsten Dunst is a Taurus: born April 30, 1982, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Kirsten Dunst's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1982 birth.
What time was Kirsten Dunst born?
13:00 local time in Point Pleasant, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Kirsten Dunst's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 13:00 birth time in Point Pleasant, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Kirsten Dunst's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Kirsten Dunst's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 21°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kirsten Dunst's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kirsten Dunst's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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