Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born William James Dafoe; July 22, 1955, Appleton, United States, 19:30), aged 71, is an American actor. Notable films include Spider-Man, The English Patient and Spider-Man 2. Dafoe's honours include Honorary Golden Bear, Film Independent Spirit Awards and Donostia Award.
Willem Dafoe’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Willem
Willem Dafoe’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Willem in the U.S.?
#2601
US rank in 2025
~2,840
Americans share it since 1916
2003
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Willem falls under that line for 1955. Its peak came in 2003, and 2,840 Americans have carried it since 1916.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Willem’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name William James Dafoe, not the name they published under.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Willem’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Willem apart
Willem Dafoe took the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2001, at 46.
Training came by way of Appleton East High School and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The working life starts in 1979, at 24.
Willem Dafoe was born to William Alfred Dafoe and married Giada Colagrande and Elizabeth A. LeCompte.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Willem Dafoe: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumni, People from West Village, Manhattan and Appleton East High School alumni.
John Leguizamo (1964) and Scott Dixon (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Appleton East High School and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Awards
- Honorary Golden Bear (2018), Film Independent Spirit Awards (2001) and Donostia Award (2005)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1979
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 86
What the chart says
Willem, according to the stars
Core essence
Willem feels the room before entering it. The core of Willem 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 Willem, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Willem is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Willem needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Willem wants to be loved
Willem wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Willem gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Willem creates
How Willem makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Willem builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Willem 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Willem is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Willem 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 Willem's birth date. Working below.
Where Willem sits
Six lines
Willem’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Willem Dafoe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Appleton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Appleton at 19:30, Willem Dafoe’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Appleton that night
Computed for 44.28°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Appleton at the birth hour: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
At 44.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Appleton at all: they sit past the −45.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 16% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -9° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- William James Dafoe
- Known as
- Willem Dafoe
- Born in
- Appleton, United States
- Lives in
- Appleton · New York City
Wikidata records Appleton and New York City as Willem Dafoe's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Willem'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 酉.
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Willem Dafoe's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Willem Dafoe was born on July 22, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Willem Dafoe's birth date, July 22, 1955, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Willem’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Willem Dafoe's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house, Uranus in the 7th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Willem Dafoe's timed chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Willem Dafoe combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Willem’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
MercurytrineSaturnseparating · 0.1° orb
Willem’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb
Willem’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 0.9° orb
Willem’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 1.3° orb
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 1.6° orb
MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 1.8° orb
MoonsextileVenusapplying · 2.1° orb
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.7° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 3.9° orb
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Willem’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 2°57′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 15°43′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 7°14′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 16°45′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 14°53′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Moon 0.6°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Moon 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Ascendant 2.0°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.7°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 3.0°
Willem’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Willem’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Moon 1.9°
Willem’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 7 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 10 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 8 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 7 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 9 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 7 | Mars, Jupiter, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 7 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 8 | Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Willem’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Willem’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188772 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Willem Dafoe 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 Willem Dafoe.
Quick answers about Willem Dafoe’s chart
- How old is Willem Dafoe?
- Willem Dafoe is 71 years old, born July 22, 1955 in Appleton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Willem Dafoe?
- Willem Dafoe is a Cancer: born July 22, 1955, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What is Willem Dafoe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1955 birth.
- What time was Willem Dafoe born?
- 19:30 local time in Appleton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Willem Dafoe's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 19:30 birth time in Appleton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Willem Dafoe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Willem Dafoe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Willem Dafoe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 14°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Willem Dafoe's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
