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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Willa
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
No US figure exists for 1873 — the SSA series begins 7 years later. Willa opened it at 517th, 12 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Willa’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on W (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Willa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Willa apart
Nicholas Hoult (1989) and Chris Wood (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Willa sits
Six lines
Willa’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 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.
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 Willa Cather
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gore 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 Gore that night
Computed for 39.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Gore at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Gore sits at 39.3°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 −50.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual Willa's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Neptune · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 25°34′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°52′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 9°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.4°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.5°
Willa’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Willa’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.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
More people like Willa
Other novelists
- Ursula K. Le Guin1929
- Timothy Zahn1951
- Nnedi Okorafor1974
- Doris Lessing1919
- Isabel Allende1942
- Kiran Desai1971
Born in United States
- Claude H. Van TyneAmerican historian
- Ralph Barton PerryAmerican philosopher
- Edwin Arlington RobinsonAmerican poet
- Susan GlaspellAmerican writer
- Ray Stannard BakerAmerican journalist
- Mack SwainAmerican actor, vaudevillian
More charts like Willa’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Jaylen WaddleAmerican football wide receiver
- Jahdae BarronAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Boye MafeAmerican football defensive end
Born in Rooster years
- Zachery Ty BryanAmerican actor
- Ben BarnesBritish actor and singer
- Scooter BraunAmerican talent manager and businessman
Also born on December 7
- Nicholas Hoult1989
- Chris Wood1991
- Caleb Landry Jones1989
- Dan Bilzerian1980
- Aaron Carter1987
- Terrell Owens1973
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jesús GallardoMexican association football player
- Haji WrightAmerican soccer player (born 1998)
- Rafael LeãoPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
Other Sagittarius Rooster charts
- Sergio de LarreaSpanish basketball player (born 2005)
- Carter BryantAmerican basketball player
- Francesca FaragoCanadian influencer and reality TV actress
- Zhang XiaolongChinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
Other Tidal Seekers
- D. J. ReedAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Teagan QuitorianoAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Nick FolkAmerican football player (born 1984)
- Cody LindenbergAmerican football player (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Paris HiltonAmerican media personality
- Daniel CraigEnglish actor
- Aamir KhanIndian actor
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Willa’s cards
Computed from December 7, 1873. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Willa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229480 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Willa Cather.
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.
- 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 was Willa Cather's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Willa Cather's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
