Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood (born July 20, 1938, San Francisco, United States; died 1981), was an American actress. Wood's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Natalie Wood’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Natalie
Natalie Wood’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 Natalie in the U.S.?
#89
US rank in 2025
~379,831
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
Natalie ranked 311th in 1938, the year of this birth, with 402 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Natalie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on N (5) 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
Natalie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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 1938, 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 Natalie apart
Natalie Wood took the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress in 1957, at 19.
The classrooms behind this chart: Van Nuys High School and Hollywood Professional School.
Cause of death is recorded as drowning; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
The family line: married Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Natalie Wood under Van Nuys High School alumni, Actresses from Santa Rosa, California and Deaths by drowning in California.
Gregor Mendel (1822) and Gisele Bündchen (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Van Nuys High School and Hollywood Professional School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1980) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress (1957)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1943
- Cause of death
- drowning
- Buried at
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Natalie, according to the stars
Core essence
Natalie feels the room before entering it. The core of Natalie is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Natalie, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Natalie wants to be loved
Natalie wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Natalie and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Natalie creates
How Natalie makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Natalie 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: Natalie 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Natalie 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.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Natalie does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Natalie's birth date. Working below.
Where Natalie sits
Six lines
Natalie’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Natalie Wood
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 73.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Francisco on any night.
The Moon, 43% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County in 1981.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Natalie Wood: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Natalie's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Air planets · 2 planets 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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Natalie Wood's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Natalie Wood was born on July 20, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Natalie Wood's birth date, July 20, 1938, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Natalie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Natalie Wood's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Natalie Wood 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.
Natalie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
Natalie’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Natalie’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
Natalie’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.2° to 5.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Natalie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 5°03′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 17°08′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 20°23′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 3°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.9°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.6°
Natalie’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Natalie’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
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Born in United States
- Maxine WatersUnited States Representative from California since 1991
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- Maury PovichAmerican television personality
- Brian DennehyAmerican actor
- Loren JenkinsAmerican war correspondent
- John CoriglianoAmerican composer (born 1938)
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on July 20
- Gregor Mendel1822
- Gisele Bündchen1980
- Carlos Santana1947
- Chris Cornell1964
- Ben Simmons1996
- Judy Greer1975
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jean ArthurAmerican actress
- Edward G. RobinsonRomanian-American actor
- Steve McQueenAmerican actor
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Joel EdgertonAustralian actor
- Colton HaynesAmerican actor and model
- Maya HawkeAmerican actress
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Holly HumberstoneBritish singer (born 1999)
- Rudolf Klein-RoggeGerman actor
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
- Harve PresnellAmerican actor and singer
Famous people with Life Path 3
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Natalie’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Natalie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180919 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Natalie Wood at Wikipedia, nataliewood.co, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Natalie Wood.
Quick answers about Natalie Wood’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Natalie Wood?
- Natalie Wood was a Cancer: born July 20, 1938, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Natalie Wood's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1938 birth.
- What was Natalie Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Natalie Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Natalie Wood's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Natalie Wood's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
