Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell (born John William Ferrell; July 16, 1967, Irvine, United States, 10:09), aged 59, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. Ferrell is best known for Step Brothers, Elf and Old School. Ferrell's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
Will Ferrell’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Will Ferrell’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Will in the U.S.?
#1195
US rank in 2025
~46,610
Americans share it since 1880
1888
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Will, according to the stars
Core essence
Will feels the room before entering it. The core of Will 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 Will, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Will feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Will needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Will wants to be loved
Will 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 Will and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Will creates
How Will makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Will 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: Will is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Will 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 Will leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Will fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Will's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Will sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Will Ferrell at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Will Ferrell's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Will Ferrell was born on July 16, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Will Ferrell's birth date, July 16, 1967, 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 Will’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Will Ferrell's timed chart: Venus in the 1st house, Uranus in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Will Ferrell's timed chart is Uranus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Will Ferrell combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Will’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb
Will’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 0.5° orb
Will’s mind grinds against their discipline.
MoonsextileUranusapplying · 0.8° orb
Will’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb
Will’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 1.8° orb
Will’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb
Will’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb
Will’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsextileUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
Will’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.7° orb
Will’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SuntrineMoonapplying · 3.0° orb
Will’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
Will’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 4.9° orb
Will’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunsquareMarsapplying · 5.0° orb
Will’s core identity grinds against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Will’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°45′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Will absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 12°31′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Will is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus 8°39′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Will wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 5°33′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Will is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°28′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Will carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.0°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
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°).
Will’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♇ Pluto11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Will is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Will’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.8°
Will’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | Venus, Uranus, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 1 | Moon, Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 8 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 2 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 3 | Sun, Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 11 | Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Will’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q218503, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Will Ferrell’s chart
- How old is Will Ferrell?
- Will Ferrell is 59 years old, born July 16, 1967 in Irvine, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Will Ferrell?
- Will Ferrell is a Cancer: born July 16, 1967, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- What is Will Ferrell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1967 birth.
- What time was Will Ferrell born?
- 10:09 local time in Irvine, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Will Ferrell's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 10:09 birth time in Irvine, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Will Ferrell?
- Will Ferrell is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Will Ferrell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1967 birth date.
- What is Will Ferrell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1967 birth time.
- Where is Will Ferrell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Will Ferrell's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
