Willa Cather
Willa Cather (born December 7, 1873, Gore, United States; died 1947), was an American writer. Cather is best remembered for My Mortal Enemy, Youth and the Bright Medusa and The Troll Garden. Cather's honours include Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, National Women's Hall of Fame and National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
Willa Cather’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Willa Cather’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Willa in the U.S.?
#422
US rank in 2025
~32,848
Americans share it since 1880
2019
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Willa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Willa, according to the stars
Core essence
Willa is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Willa is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Willa wants to be loved
Willa wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Willa even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Willa creates
How Willa makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Willa 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: Willa is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Willa is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Willa goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Willa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Willa sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Willa Cather's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 7, 1873, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterCandid to a fault.
Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Willa Cather's birth date, December 7, 1873, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Willa’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Willa Cather's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Willa Cather combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Willa’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Willa Cather, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.1° to 7.2° orb
Willa’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.3° orb
Willa’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.4° to 1.2° orb
Willa’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb
Willa’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 2.3° orb
Willa’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.8° to 2.9° orb
Willa’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
Willa’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.5° to 5.2° orb
Willa’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Willa’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.7° orb
Willa’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSuntrineUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
Willa’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.4° orb
Willa’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Willa’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 14°18′ (moves 0.02° 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: Willa may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 25°34′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Willa is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°52′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Willa is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 9°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Willa needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Willa exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros square Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.4°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.5°
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°).
Willa’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Willa is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Willa’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.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Willa Cather, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Willa’s cards
Every card is computed from December 7, 1873, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Willa Cather, 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
Willa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229480, 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 Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Willa Cather at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Willa Cather’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Willa Cather?
- Willa Cather was a Sagittarius: born December 7, 1873, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Willa Cather's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 7, 1873 birth.
- What time was Willa Cather 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 was Willa Cather's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the December 7, 1873 birth date.
- What was Willa Cather's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 7, 1873 birth date.
- Where was Willa Cather's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Willa Cather's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
