Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel (born January 17, 1980, Los Angeles, United States, 06:57), aged 46, is an American actress and singer. Notable films include (500) Days of Summer, Yes Man and Almost Famous. Deschanel's honours include Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Mar del Plata Film Festival.
Zooey Deschanel’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Zooey
Zooey Deschanel’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Zooey in the U.S.?
#13199
US rank in 2025
~1,106
Americans share it since 2003
2012
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Zooey falls under that line for 1980. Its peak came in 2012, and 1,106 Americans have carried it since 2003.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Zooey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on Z (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Zooey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1979, 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 Zooey apart
Zooey Deschanel took the Mar del Plata Film Festival in 2003, at 23.
The classrooms behind this chart: French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts and Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences.
The working life starts in 1997, at 17.
The family line: born to Mary Jo Deschanel and Caleb Deschanel and married Ben Gibbard.
Wikipedia's editors put Zooey Deschanel under Deschanel family, She & Him members and American ukulele players.
The same date carries Maksim Chmerkovskiy. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences and Northwestern University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Mar del Plata Film Festival (2003) and Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2012)
- Nominated for
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Working from
- 1997
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Zooey, according to the stars
Core essence
Zooey is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Zooey is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Zooey is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Zooey needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Zooey wants to be loved
Zooey wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Zooey, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Zooey creates
How Zooey makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Zooey creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Zooey 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Zooey is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Zooey 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 Zooey's birth date. Working below.
Where Zooey sits
Six lines
Zooey’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 06:57, Zooey Deschanel’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Izar, in Boötes, 83.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
Sun 0° below the horizon, Moon up and 0% lit at new moon.
What Zooey's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Minister 天相 in 酉
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Born on the New Moon · A bowl chart
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Zooey Deschanel's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Zooey Deschanel was born on January 17, 1980, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Zooey Deschanel's birth date, January 17, 1980, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Zooey’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Zooey Deschanel's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 1st house, Mercury in the 1st house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Zooey Deschanel's timed chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Moon and Mercury, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Zooey Deschanel combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Zooey’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
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 0.3° orb
Zooey’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.3° orb
Zooey’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysextileUranusapplying · 0.5° orb
Zooey’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.1° orb
MoonsquarePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
MoonsextileUranusapplying · 1.7° orb
SunsextileUranusseparating · 1.9° orb
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 2.2° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.4° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 2.5° orb
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 2.7° orb
SunconjunctionMoonapplying · 3.6° orb
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 3.8° orb
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 4.9° orb
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.4° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.9° orb
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb
VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 7.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Zooey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°08′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°59′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 26°37′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°09′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 21°21′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Sun 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Eros sextile Ascendant 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Moon 1.7°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.9°
Zooey’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn17 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury10 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun7 pts
angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Zooey’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Moon, MercuryThree 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
- Moon semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
Zooey’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 9 | Sun, Moon, Mercury | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 12 | Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 1 | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 10 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 9 | Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Zooey Deschanel also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Zooey
Maksim Chmerkovskiy was born on January 17, 1980 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in United States
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- Ruben GallegoAmerican politician (born 1979)
- Chelsea ClintonAmerican author and global health advocate
- Jerry FerraraAmerican actor
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- Jeff BezosAmerican business magnate
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Born in Goat years
- Ousmane DiengFrench basketball player (born 2003)
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
- Nikola JovićSerbian basketball player (born 2003)
Also born on January 17
- Muhammad Ali1942
- Michelle Obama1964
- Jim Carrey1962
- Betty White1922
- Eartha Kitt1927
- Katalin Karikó1955
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
- T. Harry WilliamsAmerican historian
- Thomas PowersAmerican reporter
Other Capricorn Goat charts
- Carol Ann DuffyScottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
- Bob ShawIrish science fiction writer
- Kameron HurleyAmerican writer
- LL Cool JAmerican rapper and actor (born 1968)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- John UpdikeAmerican novelist, poet
- Burton J. HendrickAmerican author and editor
- Michael AbelsAmerican composer
- Harvey Williams CushingAmerican neurosurgeon
Other Capricorn risings with documented times
- Trent ReznorAmerican musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer
- Tiffany HaddishAmerican comedian and actress
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- Callum TurnerEnglish actor
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Zooey’s cards
Computed from January 17, 1980. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Zooey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q191719 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Zooey Deschanel at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zooey Deschanel.
Quick answers about Zooey Deschanel’s chart
- How old is Zooey Deschanel?
- Zooey Deschanel is 46 years old, born January 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Zooey Deschanel?
- Zooey Deschanel is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1980, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What is Zooey Deschanel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1980 birth.
- What time was Zooey Deschanel born?
- 06:57 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Zooey Deschanel's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 06:57 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Zooey Deschanel?
- Zooey Deschanel is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Zooey Deschanel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Zooey Deschanel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Zooey Deschanel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 21°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Zooey Deschanel's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (17 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
