Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971, Winona, United States, 11:00), aged 55, is an American actress. Notable films include Stranger Things, Black Swan and Star Trek. Ryder's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and Jupiter Awards.
Winona Ryder’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Winona
Winona Ryder’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Winona in the U.S.?
#627
US rank in 2025
~12,953
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
The SSA recorded 63 American girls named Winona in 1971: 1,559th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Winona’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Winona Laura Horowitz, not the name they published under.
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Expression · connecting people
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Soul Urge · being needed
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Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Winona’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
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 1971, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Winona apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture came in 1993, when Winona Ryder was 22.
Winona Ryder was taught at Petaluma High School and American Conservatory Theater.
Winona Ryder was 15 when the work began in 1986.
On the family side, Winona Ryder was born to Cynthia Palmer and Michael D. Horowitz.
Ma Huateng shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Petaluma High School and American Conservatory Theater
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1993) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2017)
- Nominated for
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and Satellite Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film
- Working from
- 1986
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
What the chart says
Winona, according to the stars
Core essence
Winona does not do surface. The core of Winona is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Winona is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Winona is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Winona needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Winona wants to be loved
Winona 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 Winona even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Winona creates
How Winona makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Winona creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Winona is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Winona is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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. Winona 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 Winona's birth date. Working below.
Where Winona sits
Six lines
Winona’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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Read from the sky above Winona at 11:00, Winona Ryder’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Winona that night
Computed for 44.05°N, at the documented birth time.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Winona at the birth hour, 81.8° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 44.0°N, Capella never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Winona at all: they sit past the −46.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -27° below the horizon, Moon down and 76% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Winona Laura Horowitz
- Known as
- Winona Ryder
- Born in
- Winona, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Winona Ryder's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Winona, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as strongly supportive for this chart: 92 of 100, 5th of 164 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Reykjavik, Iceland, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Winona's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Commander 七殺 in 辰
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 4/6
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Moon · 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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Winona Ryder's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Winona Ryder was born on October 29, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Winona Ryder's birth date, October 29, 1971, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Winona’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Winona Ryder's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Winona Ryder's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Winona Ryder combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Winona’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
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb
Winona’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SuntrineMoonseparating · 1.0° orb
Winona’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 1.4° orb
Winona’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquareJupiterapplying · 1.8° orb
JupiteroppositionSaturnseparating · 3.2° orb
SaturnoppositionNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.4° orb
VenussquareMarsapplying · 3.9° orb
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.7° orb
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Winona’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°31′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 14°02′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 29°20′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 8°57′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°55′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Ascendant 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.2°
Winona’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter12.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Winona’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Moon · Jupiter, Saturn, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Moon · Saturn, Neptune, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
Winona’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 1 | Jupiter, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 7 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 11 | Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 1 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 12 | Saturn | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 12 | Uranus, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 11 | Sun, Mercury, Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Winona
Ma Huateng was born on October 29, 1971 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Winona, at 44.0°N, Capella are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Winona’s cards
Computed from October 29, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Winona’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q101797 (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 Winona Ryder 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 Winona Ryder.
Quick answers about Winona Ryder’s chart
- How old is Winona Ryder?
- Winona Ryder is 55 years old, born October 29, 1971 in Winona, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Winona Ryder?
- Winona Ryder is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1971, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What is Winona Ryder's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1971 birth.
- What time was Winona Ryder born?
- 11:00 local time in Winona, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Winona Ryder's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 11:00 birth time in Winona, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Winona Ryder?
- Winona Ryder is 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Winona Ryder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Winona Ryder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Winona Ryder's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Winona Ryder's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
