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Winona Ryder.

29 October 1971 · 11:00 · Rochester, Olmsted County, United States

Winona Ryder's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Pisces, Sagittarius rising. Born October 29, 1971 in Rochester, Olmsted County, United States.

About this chart

What is Winona Ryder's sun sign?

Winona Ryder's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Winona Ryder's moon sign?

Winona Ryder's moon is in Pisces.

What is Winona Ryder's rising sign?

Winona Ryder's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Winona Ryder born?

Winona Ryder was born October 29, 1971 in Rochester, Olmsted 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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 fire 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.

SunScorpio · 11th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonPisces · 3rd house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Sagittarius in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 NodeAquarius · 2nd house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 8th house

The South Node in Leo (8th 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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Gemini; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerSagittarius · 12th house

Jupiter is at home here. Growth comes through philosophy, travel and meaning, carried by faith in the larger pattern. The shadow is dodging the particular by way of the universal.

Where it drives. Luck lives in the unseen. A rich inner life, often a quiet benefactor, with mystical leanings and good fortune that comes through retreat.

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
MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant. Planets in the 10th (Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 fixed 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.

UranusLibra · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundAries · 4th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 10th house

Lilith is the part of you that kept the peace by disappearing. It is the refusal to make harmony out of self-erasure. The medicine is letting other people be uncomfortable when your truth needs air. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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, fixed chart led by Jupiter. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Jupiter is the loudest force in your chart, which means expansion, faith, and the search for more lead. You are jovial in the old sense, generous and optimistic and forever reaching toward the larger picture.

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 fire 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
23%
Earth
0%
Air
26%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Jupiter, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn form a T-square with Moon at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Virgo, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Moon: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Moon can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Virgo, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Moon, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Saturn form a T-square with Moon at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Virgo, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Moon: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Moon can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Virgo, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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 0.95°

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.

Sun trine Moonorb 0.97°

In you, the Sun flows together with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Moon square Saturnorb 1.44°

In you, the Moon grinds against Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Moon square Jupiterorb 1.78°

In you, the Moon grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Jupiter opposition Saturnorb 3.22°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

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
Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Chiron sextile North Nodeorb 0.0°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.0°

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.

Sun trine Moonorb 1.0°

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

Jupiter sextile North Nodeorb 2.1°

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

Jupiter trine Chironorb 2.2°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Saturnorb 1.4°

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

Uranus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.4°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

Venus runs uphill in Scorpio, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Moon square Jupiterorb 1.8°

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

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Chart data for Winona Ryder
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun5°34' Scorpio11th house·
Moon6°32' Pisces3rd house·
Mercury18°42' Scorpio11th house·
Venus22°05' Scorpio11th housedetriment
Mars26°00' Aquarius2nd house·
Jupiter8°19' Sagittarius12th houserulership, chart ruler
Saturn5°06' Gemini6th houseretrograde
Uranus15°18' Libra10th house·
Neptune1°48' Sagittarius12th house·
Pluto0°51' Libra9th house·
Chiron10°31' Aries4th houseretrograde
North Node10°28' Aquarius2nd houseretrograde
South Node10°28' Leo8th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith16°50' Libra10th house·
Part of Fortune13°52' Aries4th house·
Vertex26°09' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
chironsextilenorth-node0.04°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.95°separating
suntrinemoon0.97°separating
moonsquaresaturn1.44°separating
uranusoppositionpart-of-fortune1.44°separating
uranusconjunctionlilith1.53°separating
moonsquarejupiter1.78°applying
jupitersextilenorth-node2.15°applying
jupitertrinechiron2.19°applying
lilithoppositionpart-of-fortune2.97°separating
jupiteroppositionsaturn3.22°separating
saturnoppositionneptune3.30°applying
chironconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.34°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus3.38°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune3.39°separating
venussquaremars3.93°applying
venustrinevertex4.08°applying
saturntrinepluto4.25°applying
moonsquareneptune4.74°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.78°separating
uranustrinenorth-node4.83°separating
sunsquarenorth-node4.91°applying
saturntrinenorth-node5.37°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune5.54°applying
neptunetrinevertex5.65°separating
marssquareneptune5.80°applying
neptunesemisquarelilith0.03°separating
marsquincunxvertex0.15°applying
sunquincunxsaturn0.46°separating
marssemisquarechiron0.49°separating
marsbiquintilepluto1.16°separating
mercurybiquintilepart-of-fortune1.17°applying
uranussemisquareneptune1.50°applying
mercurysemisextilelilith1.86°separating