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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau’s birth chart

Born October 1, 1920 in New York City, birth time not public.

Libra Sun · Taurus Moon · Air · Cardinal

Sun

Libra

8° Libra 09'

You balance. Fairness, beauty and the quality of your relationships shape your decisions, and you can see both sides of almost anything. Your growth lies in choosing a side when it counts.

Moon

Taurus

23° Taurus 50'

You feel through your body and your surroundings. Good food, familiar places and slow evenings restore you, and sudden change lands hard. Once you feel safe, you are the steadiest person in the room.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

Walter Matthau’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 8° Libra 09'
Moon 23° Taurus 50'
Mercury 24° Libra 25'
Venus 2° Scorpio 16'
Mars 17° Sagittarius 57'
Jupiter 7° Virgo 30'
Saturn 17° Virgo 56'
Uranus 2° Pisces 24'
Neptune 13° Leo 11'
Pluto 8° Cancer 54'
North Node 6° Scorpio 42'
South Node 6° Taurus 42'

Walter Matthau's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

  1. Sun in Libra

    8° Libra 09'

    purpose and vitality

    Their vitality rises in good company, and purpose feels real when Walter is creating balance or beauty with other people. The tension is losing their own direction while managing everyone else's. It shows up as how much harder it is to decide things alone than with a second opinion in the room.

  2. Moon in Taurus

    23° Taurus 50'

    needs and habits

    They need routine, familiar food and physical comfort to feel steady from day to day. Sudden schedule changes unsettle they more than they let on. It shows up in how much a good bed, a favourite mug or the same coffee order can turn an unsteady morning around.

  3. Mercury in Libra

    24° Libra 25'

    mind and voice

    They think by weighing both sides, and they communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. The tension is taking so long to land on an opinion that the moment for it passes. It shows up as genuinely changing their mind mid conversation because the other point had merit.

  4. Venus in Scorpio

    2° Scorpio 16'

    love and values

    They love intensely and privately, and they value depth and total honesty over ease. The tension is testing loyalty in ways that can create the very distance Walter is afraid of. It shows up as an all-or-nothing quality to how they commit, with little interest in anything in between.

  5. Mars in Sagittarius

    17° Sagittarius 57'

    drive and anger

    They act boldly and want room to move while Walter is doing it, and their anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on their freedom. The tension is speaking bluntly in the heat of the moment and smoothing it over later. It shows up as walking away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo

    7° Virgo 30'

    growth and excess

    They grow through mastering a craft in genuine, unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. The overreach is perfectionism that turns growth into an endless list of corrections. It shows up as being trusted with more responsibility than they think they have earned, largely because they actually have.

  7. Saturn in Virgo

    17° Virgo 56'

    discipline and doubt

    They build discipline around competence, often driven by a fear that they have not yet done enough to deserve rest. The doubt shows up as feeling like a fraud even when their actual track record says otherwise. It shows up as becoming genuinely, quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.

  8. Uranus in Pisces

    2° Pisces 24'

    freedom, generational

    Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who transform spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries earlier generations kept firm. Personally, it can show up as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    13° Leo 11'

    imagination, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    8° Cancer 54'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.

Aspects

How the planets in Walter Matthau's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Mars square Saturn

    0.0° separating

    Their drive can meet real resistance, whether external obstacles or their own doubt, and frustration builds when progress feels blocked. Each time they keep working steadily anyway, that resistance turns into genuine competence that shows up exactly when they need it most.

  2. Venus trine Uranus

    0.1° applying

    Their affections and their independence cooperate easily, letting they stay close to people without feeling confined by it. Excitement and stability manage to coexist for they, more comfortably than the usual choice between the two would suggest.

  3. Sun square Pluto

    0.7° applying

    Their identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether with themselves or with people who challenge they. Each time they choose transformation over domination, this friction turns into genuine, hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.

  4. Jupiter sextile Pluto

    1.4° applying

    Their sense of possibility and their depth cooperate, giving they acces to meaningful growth without constant upheaval. Opportunities that matter tend to find they at a manageable pace, rather than arriving all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.

  • Mars trine Neptune4.8°
  • Sun sextile Neptune5.0°
  • Jupiter opposition Uranus5.1°
  • Moon trine Saturn5.9°
  • Uranus trine Pluto6.5°
  • Venus trine Pluto6.6°
  • Mercury conjunction Venus7.8°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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