Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson (born January 20, 1966, Seattle, United States), aged 60, is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. Notable films include The Office, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Juno.
Rainn Wilson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Rainn
How common is the name Rainn in the U.S.?
#4112
US rank in 2025
~590
Americans share it since 2006
2023
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Rainn falls under that line for 1966. Its peak came in 2021, and 590 Americans have carried it since 2006.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rainn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (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
Rainn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets Rainn apart
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rainn, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Rainn is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Rainn needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Rainn wants to be loved
Rainn wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Rainn be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Rainn creates
How Rainn makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Rainn creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Rainn is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Rainn is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Rainn goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Rainn's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Seattle at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 47.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Seattle at all: they sit past the −42.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Rainn's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · No Fire planets
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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Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
Rainn Wilson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Rainn Wilson was born on January 20, 1966, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Rainn Wilson's birth date, January 20, 1966, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Rainn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rainn Wilson's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto.
Rainn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Capricorn 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 6.7° orb
Rainn’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Rainn’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Rainn’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.3° to 1.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto0.8° to 2.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.1° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.3° to 2.8° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Rainn’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 19°13′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 1°54′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 11°04′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 2°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
Rainn’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Rainn’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Rainn’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1966. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rainn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q349548 (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 John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rainn Wilson.
Quick answers about Rainn Wilson’s chart
- How old is Rainn Wilson?
- Rainn Wilson is 60 years old, born January 20, 1966 in Seattle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rainn Wilson?
- Rainn Wilson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Rainn Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1966 birth.
- What is Rainn Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rainn Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rainn Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rainn Wilson's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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