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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Will
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
The SSA recorded 167 American boys named Will in 1967: 586th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Will’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name John William Ferrell, not the name they published under.
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Expression · building what holds
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Soul Urge · achievement
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Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1967, 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 Will apart
The record Will Ferrell is measured by: Old School, Elf and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Will Ferrell was taught at The Groundlings and University High School.
Will Ferrell was 27 when the work began in 1994.
Will Ferrell was married Viveca Paulin and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Will Ferrell under Businesspeople from Orange County, California, Frat Pack and Comedians from California.
Margaret Court (1942) and Wizkid (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Old School, Elf and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Educated at
- The Groundlings, University High School and USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Awards
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2011), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program (2019) and MTV Comedic Genius Award (2013)
- Working from
- 1994
- Sport
- baseball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 78
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. Working below.
Where Will sits
Six lines
Will’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Will Ferrell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Irvine on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Irvine at 10:09, Will Ferrell’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Irvine that night
Computed for 33.68°N, at the documented birth time.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Irvine at the birth hour, 81.6° above the horizon in Taurus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Irvine sits at 33.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Irvine at all: they sit past the −56.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 73% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -51° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- John William Ferrell
- Known as
- Will Ferrell
- Born in
- Irvine, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Will's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 寅.
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 1.8° orb
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb
SunsextileUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.7° orb
SuntrineMoonapplying · 3.0° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 4.9° orb
SunsquareMarsapplying · 5.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°45′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 12°31′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°39′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 5°33′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°28′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Will’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Will’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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.8°
Will’s houses
| 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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Also born on July 16
- Margaret Court1942
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Will’s cards
Computed from July 16, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q218503 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Will Ferrell at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Will Ferrell.
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.
- 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.
- What is Will Ferrell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
