Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton (born July 29, 1972, Burbank, United States), aged 54, is an American actor and writer.
Wil Wheaton’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Wil
Wil Wheaton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Wil in the U.S.?
#13797
US rank in 2025
~1,094
Americans share it since 1953
2005
its peak year
In 1972, 8 American boys were registered Wil — 3,958th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wil’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on W (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Wil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Wil apart
The schooling ran through Crescenta Valley High School and University of California, Los Angeles.
Wil Wheaton was 8 when the work began in 1980.
Wil Wheaton was born to Richard William Wheaton Jr..
On Wikipedia the categories read Creative Commons-licensed authors, American poker players and Male actors from Burbank, California.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Crescenta Valley High School and University of California, Los Angeles
- Working from
- 1980
- Sport
- poker
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Wil, according to the stars
Core essence
Wil is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Wil is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Wil 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 Wil 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 Wil wants to be loved
Wil wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Wil like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Wil creates
How Wil makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Wil creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Wil is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Wil is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Wil leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Wil fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Wil's birth date. Working below.
Where Wil sits
Six lines
Wil’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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Wil Wheaton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Burbank 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 Burbank that night
Computed for 34.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Burbank was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 77.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Burbank sits at 34.2°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 −55.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 83% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Burbank, United States
- Lives in
- Arcadia
Wikidata records Arcadia as Wil Wheaton'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 Wil Wheaton: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Wil's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Pluto · No Water 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.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Wil Wheaton's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Wil Wheaton was born on July 29, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Wil Wheaton's birth date, July 29, 1972, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Wil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wil Wheaton's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Wil Wheaton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Wil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° 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
stableJupitersquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Wil’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.2° to 2.2° orb
Wil’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
Wil’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Wil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 12°49′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 7°49′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 17°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°
Wil’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Wil’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
More people like Wil
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Born in United States
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on July 29
- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Josh Radnor1974
- Sanjay Dutt1959
- Ginni Rometty1957
- Tim Gunn1953
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Clint EastwoodAmerican actor and film director
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Other Gilded Scholars
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Wil’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q264699 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wil Wheaton.
Quick answers about Wil Wheaton’s chart
- How old is Wil Wheaton?
- Wil Wheaton is 54 years old, born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Wil Wheaton?
- Wil Wheaton is a Leo: born July 29, 1972, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Wil Wheaton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1972 birth.
- What is Wil Wheaton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Wil Wheaton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Wil Wheaton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Wil Wheaton's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
