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Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976, New Orleans, United States), aged 50, is an American actress. Witherspoon is best known for Whiskey in a Teacup, Legally Blonde and Walk the Line. Witherspoon's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

Reese Witherspoon’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Reese Witherspoon’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 Reese in the U.S.?

#192

US rank in 2025

~64,381

Americans share it since 1880

2012

its peak year

The SSA recorded 49 American boys named Reese in 1976: 1,255th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Reese’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

5

Soul Urge · freedom

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on R (9) 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

Reese’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, 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 Reese apart

William Shatner (1931) and Nick Robinson (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and American English

What the chart says

Reese, according to the stars

Core essence

Reese leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Reese is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Reese wants to be loved

Reese 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 Reese, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Reese creates

How Reese makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Reese 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: Reese is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Reese 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 Reese 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 Reese's birth date. Working below.

Where Reese sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Reese

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Reese

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

PrivateExpressive
Reese

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Reese

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

PracticalVisionary
Reese

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Reese

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Reese Witherspoon

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Orleans 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 Orleans that night

Computed for 29.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Orleans was Asellus Australis, in Cancer, 77.5° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

New Orleans sits at 30.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon down and 47% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
New Orleans, United States
Lives in
Bel Air

Wikidata records Bel Air as Reese Witherspoon's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Reese Witherspoon: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Reese's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Sun · No Earth 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.

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Aries Sun

First through every door.

Reese Witherspoon's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Reese Witherspoon's birth date, March 22, 1976, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Reese’s chart

Reese’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Aries · 2°14′☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 1°47′☽1°Mercury in Pisces · 22°38′☿22°Venus in Pisces · 9°30′♀9°Mars in Cancer · 1°52′♂1°Jupiter in Aries · 29°10′♃29°Saturn in Cancer · 26°03′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Scorpio · 6°26′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°57′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Libra · 10°34′ · retrograde♇℞10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Reese’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.1° to 0.6° orb

    Reese’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 6.6° orb

    Reese’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.5° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn5.7° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.1° to 7.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°38′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 18°46′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 28°51′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.9°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°

Reese’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Reese’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.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°

Reese’s family here

2 relatives of Reese Witherspoon also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Reese’s cards

Computed from March 22, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Reese’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44063 (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 dtstuff9, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Reese Witherspoon at Wikipedia, reesesbookclub.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Reese Witherspoon.

Quick answers about Reese Witherspoon’s chart

How old is Reese Witherspoon?
Reese Witherspoon is 50 years old, born March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, United States.
What zodiac sign is Reese Witherspoon?
Reese Witherspoon is an Aries: born March 22, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Reese Witherspoon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1976 birth.
What is Reese Witherspoon's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Reese Witherspoon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Reese Witherspoon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Reese Witherspoon's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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