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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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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 1880
2005
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Wil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Wil sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Wil Wheaton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Wil’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Wil’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.2° to 4.2° orb
Wil’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
Wil’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
Wil’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.1° to 4.8° orb
Wil’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.2° orb
Wil’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Wil may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Wil caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 12°49′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Wil is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 7°49′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Wil carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 17°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Wil is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Wil’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Wil is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Wil’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wil Wheaton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Wil’s cards
Every card is computed from July 29, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Wil Wheaton, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Wil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q264699, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Wil Wheaton at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- 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 time was Wil Wheaton born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Wil Wheaton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1972 birth date.
- What is Wil Wheaton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1972 birth date.
- 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.
