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Willem Dafoe.

22 July 1955 · 19:30 · Appleton, Outagamie County, United States

Willem Dafoe's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Virgo, Capricorn rising. Born July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Outagamie County, United States.

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What is Willem Dafoe's sun sign?

Willem Dafoe's sun is in Cancer.

What is Willem Dafoe's moon sign?

Willem Dafoe's moon is in Virgo.

What is Willem Dafoe's rising sign?

Willem Dafoe's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Willem Dafoe born?

Willem Dafoe was born July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Outagamie County, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of earth and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCancer · 7th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. You become visible through the mirror of the other. Significant relationships are not optional here. They are the field where the self does its real work.

MoonVirgo · 8th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Scorpio in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeSagittarius · 12th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 6th house

The South Node in Gemini (6th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Leo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn rising puts Saturn in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Saturn · the chart rulerScorpio · 10th house

The work is on transformation, intimacy and power: lessons in trust and the careful use of force. The shadow is control mistaken for safety.

Where it drives. Saturn is at home here. Ambition is structural, and the climb is steep but real, ending in genuine, earned authority.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusCancer · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Cancer

A generation that breaks the family open, redefining home and belonging.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 1st house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a water, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Cancer. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Cancer, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Cancer key.

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Virgo Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of earth and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
18%
Earth
31%
Air
0%
Water
51%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Mercury, Sun, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus, Venus gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

Tremendous focus through Cancer: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Cancer energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Cancer stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Cancer is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Jupiter, Mars, Pluto

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

Tremendous focus through Leo: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Leo energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.06°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury trine Saturnorb 0.15°

In you, Mercury flows together with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Mars conjunction Jupiterorb 0.95°

In you, Mars is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun conjunction Uranusorb 1.34°

In you, the Sun is fused with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 1.63°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.1°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury trine Saturnorb 0.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Pluto trine North Nodeorb 0.4°

A natural, flowing ease: Pluto and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile North Nodeorb 0.4°

An easy, available link: Neptune and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 1.6°

An easy, available link: Moon and Mercury feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 1.8°

An easy, available link: Moon and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Moon square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Uranus square Neptuneorb 2.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Uranus and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun opposition Chironorb 3.5°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Sun and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Neptuneorb 3.9°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars opposition Chironorb 4.5°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mars and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Uranus opposition Chironorb 4.9°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Uranus and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Willem Dafoe
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun29°24' Cancer7th house·
Moon16°17' Virgo8th house·
Mercury14°39' Cancer7th house·
Venus18°22' Cancer7th house·
Mars7°26' Leo7th house·
Jupiter8°23' Leo7th house·
Saturn14°30' Scorpio10th housechart ruler
Uranus28°04' Cancer7th house·
Neptune25°31' Libra9th house·
Pluto25°35' Leo7th house·
Chiron2°57' Aquarius1st houseretrograde
North Node25°56' Sagittarius12th houseretrograde
South Node25°56' Gemini6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith14°55' Sagittarius11th house·
Part of Fortune0°40' Pisces2nd house·
Vertex21°47' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.06°separating
mercurytrinesaturn0.15°separating
plutotrinenorth-node0.35°applying
neptunesextilenorth-node0.41°applying
marsconjunctionjupiter0.95°applying
sunconjunctionuranus1.34°separating
moonsquarelilith1.36°separating
moonsextilemercury1.63°separating
moonsextilesaturn1.78°separating
moonsextilevenus2.08°applying
uranussquareneptune2.54°separating
sunoppositionchiron3.55°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus3.71°applying
neptunesextilevertex3.73°separating
plutoconjunctionvertex3.79°separating
venustrinesaturn3.86°separating
sunsquareneptune3.88°separating
north-nodetrinevertex4.14°applying
marsoppositionchiron4.49°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.89°applying
plutooppositionpart-of-fortune5.08°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune5.14°applying
jupiteroppositionchiron5.43°separating
mercuryquincunxlilith0.27°applying
saturnsemisextilelilith0.42°separating
sunsesquiquadratelilith0.52°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.01°applying
sunquincunxpart-of-fortune1.26°applying
moonsesquiquadratechiron1.67°applying
uranussesquiquadratelilith1.86°separating
sunsemisquaremoon1.88°separating
uranusquincunxnorth-node2.13°separating