Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson (born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson; July 23, 1961, Midland, United States), aged 65, is an American actor. Notable films include No Country for Old Men, The Hunger Games and 2012. Harrelson's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.
Woody Harrelson’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Woody
Woody Harrelson’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Woody in the U.S.?
#8220
US rank in 2025
~4,246
Americans share it since 1882
1946
its peak year
The SSA recorded 80 American boys named Woody in 1961: 857th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Woody’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on W (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Woody’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Gold · Silver
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 1961, 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 Woody apart
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series came in 1989, when Woody Harrelson was 28.
The schooling ran through The Briarwood School and Lebanon High School.
Woody Harrelson was 24 when the work began in 1985.
The family line: born to Charles Harrelson.
Wikipedia files Woody Harrelson under Hanover College alumni, People from Lebanon, Ohio and American anarchists.
Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- The Briarwood School, Lebanon High School and Hanover College
- Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2008), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1989) and Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (2009)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 79
What the chart says
Woody, according to the stars
Core essence
Woody is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Woody is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Woody wants to be loved
Woody wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Woody like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Woody creates
How Woody 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. Woody 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: Woody is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Woody is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Woody channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Woody's birth date. Working below.
Where Woody sits
Six lines
Woody’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Woody Harrelson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Midland 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 Midland that night
Computed for 32.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Midland was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 83.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 79 catalog stars above the horizon.
Midland sits at 32.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Midland at all: they sit past the −58.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 81% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 2° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
- Known as
- Woody Harrelson
- Born in
- Midland, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Woody Harrelson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Woody's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Woody Harrelson's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 23, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Woody Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Woody Harrelson's birth date, July 23, 1961, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Woody’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Woody Harrelson's date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Woody Harrelson 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.
Woody’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
Woody’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb
Woody’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Woody’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.1° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Woody’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 17°11′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 14°03′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 20°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.4°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
Woody’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Woody’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 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.7°
More people like Woody
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Born in United States
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More charts like Woody’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Pieter-Steph du ToitSouth African rugby union footballer
- Tyson FuryBritish boxer (born 1988)
- Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand cricketer
Born in Ox years
- Alexis VegaMexican footballer
- Matías ViñaUruguayan footballer
- Rodrigo BentancurUruguayan association football player
Also born on July 23
- Haile Selassie I1892
- Daniel Radcliffe1989
- Philip Seymour Hoffman1967
- Vera Rubin1928
- Paul Wesley1982
- Kathryn Hahn1973
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Erin KellymanBritish actress
- Michael KellyAmerican actor
- Gary SiniseAmerican actor
Other Leo Ox charts
- John KeyPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
- Javier ZanettiArgentine association football player
- Antonio ValenciaPortughez association football player
- Kristen WiigAmerican actress and comedian
Other Radiant Guardians
- Jake CurhanAmerican football player
- VernonAmerican-South Korean rapper
- Bogdan BogdanovićSerbian basketball player (born 1992)
- Jordan McLaughlinAmerican basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Hassan HaskinsAmerican football running back
- Rico DowdleAmerican football running back
- Von MillerAmerican football player (born 1989)
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Woody’s cards
Computed from July 23, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Woody’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201279 (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 Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Woody Harrelson.
Quick answers about Woody Harrelson’s chart
- How old is Woody Harrelson?
- Woody Harrelson is 65 years old, born July 23, 1961 in Midland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Woody Harrelson?
- Woody Harrelson is a Leo: born July 23, 1961, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Woody Harrelson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1961 birth.
- What is Woody Harrelson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Woody Harrelson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Woody Harrelson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Woody Harrelson's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
