Winona Ryder’s birth chart
Born 29 October 1971, in Winona, Minnesota, at 11:00 (Rodden AA).
Scorpio Sun · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising
Winona Ryder’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
29 October 1971 was a Friday: the day Winona Ryder was born in Winona, Minnesota. Their zodiac sign is Scorpio, with the Moon in Pisces and Sagittarius rising. Winona turns 55 in 2026. The birth time, 11:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is four air, four water, two fire and no earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, four and four. Sun, Mercury and Venus all fall in Scorpio. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Neptune and Pluto: a sextile, 0.9° from exact. One planet was retrograde: Saturn. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 18 other people born on 29 October, among them Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Edwin van der Sar and Dan Castellaneta. Wikidata links Winona with one person in the dataset: Johnny Depp (listed as partners, 1989 to 1993).
Winona Ryder’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
5° Scorpio 34'
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Winona Ryder, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Pisces
6° Pisces 32'
With the Moon in Pisces, Winona may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
Sagittarius
13° Sagittarius 32'
With Sagittarius rising, Winona probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 11:00 on 29 October 1971, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 5° Scorpio 34' | House 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 6° Pisces 32' | House 3 |
| Mercury | 18° Scorpio 42' | House 11 |
| Venus | 22° Scorpio 05' | House 11 |
| Mars | 26° Aquarius 00' | House 2 |
| Jupiter | 8° Sagittarius 19' | House 12 |
| Saturn | 5° Gemini 06'℞ | House 6 |
| Uranus | 15° Libra 18' | House 10 |
| Neptune | 1° Sagittarius 48' | House 12 |
| Pluto | 0° Libra 51' | House 9 |
| North Node | 10° Aquarius 28' | House 2 |
| South Node | 10° Leo 28' | House 8 |
Winona Ryder’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Winona Ryder’s private life.
Sun in Scorpio
5° Scorpio 34' · eleventh house
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Winona Ryder's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
The Sun in the eleventh house means Winona finds themselves through friendships and the causes they throw their weight behind, more than through solitary achievement. Winona is at their best inside a group with a shared purpose, and being cut off from that kind of company can dim their spark.
Moon in Pisces
6° Pisces 32' · third house
needs and habits
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Winona more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
The Moon in the third house suggests someone who talks or writes a feeling through until it makes sense, and Winona may find silence around an unspoken worry deeply unsettling. A conversation with the right person at the right moment is often how Winona finds their footing again.
Mercury in Scorpio
18° Scorpio 42' · eleventh house
mind and voice
With Mercury in Scorpio, Winona tends to think in layers, looking for what is not being said as much as what is spoken aloud. Once they have decided to speak they can be very direct, and until then, silent. The tension is suspecting a hidden motive where there is only an ordinary one.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Winona thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Winona's best thinking happens.
Venus in Scorpio
22° Scorpio 05' · eleventh house
love and values
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Winona is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
Friendship matters enormously with Venus in the eleventh house, a placement that tends to gather a warm, easygoing circle around Winona without any effort to draw it. With Venus here, the instinct is to keep the peace in a group, often smoothing over tension before anyone else has noticed it.
Mars in Aquarius
26° Aquarius 00' · second house
drive and anger
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Winona can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
With Mars in the second house, Winona goes after what they want with visible drive, and a firm sense of their own worth fuels that determination. Patience with slow, gradual progress is unlikely to be their strong suit, and waiting around frustrates them quickly.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
8° Sagittarius 19' · twelfth house
growth and excess
With Jupiter in Sagittarius, Winona is likely to grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than ordinary life. The excess may be promising more than circumstances can deliver, out of optimism rather than dishonesty. This Jupiter carries a conviction that things will work out, and other people borrow it when theirs runs low.
Winona probably carries a quiet trust that things make sense, and solitude is apt to bring them insight rather than loneliness. With Jupiter in the twelfth house, that trust tends to hold even in the moments when the whole picture cannot yet be seen.
Saturn in Gemini
5° Gemini 06' ℞ · sixth house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Winona that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
With Saturn in the sixth house, Winona takes daily responsibilities seriously, sometimes to the point of being harder on themselves than the job requires. Saturn here keeps up a discipline over years, long after others would have let it slip.
Uranus in Libra
15° Libra 18' · tenth house
freedom, generational
Winona holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Winona's working life may look less linear than most, because they prefer work that lets them innovate to work that follows an established script. Uranus in the tenth house would rather be known for being different than for fitting an existing mould.
Neptune in Sagittarius
1° Sagittarius 48' · twelfth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Winona in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
The twelfth house is Neptune's natural home, and Winona's inner life is likely to be rich with imagination, intuition and a sense of connection to something larger than themselves. Neptune here makes solitude less about being alone and more about tuning in to what is already there.
Pluto in Libra
0° Libra 51' · ninth house
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Winona belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
With Pluto in the ninth house, Winona's view of the world is apt to be overturned and rebuilt at some point, an old outlook giving way to one that has been personally tested. The placement is linked with questioning a philosophy thoroughly before taking it on.
Aspects in Winona Ryder’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun trine Moon
1.0° separating
With a Sun-Moon trine, purpose and emotional needs back each other up with very little effort. Winona Ryder is likely to know what they want and to feel good pursuing it, which gives them an unusual, steady confidence that other people can sense.
Moon square Saturn
1.4° separating
With the Moon square Saturn, emotional needs can run into self-doubt: a fear of asking for too much, or of feelings being an inconvenience. Each time Winona lets someone show up for them anyway, that fear loses a little of its grip.
Moon square Jupiter
1.8° applying
Emotional generosity can run ahead of what can be sustained when the Moon is square Jupiter, and Winona may end up overcommitting their time or their care. Generosity with limits lasts longer, for them and for everyone else, than generosity offered with no limits at all.
Jupiter opposition Saturn
3.2° separating
Winona is likely to feel two instincts at once: to expand into new opportunities, and to consolidate what is already in hand. Neither is wrong, and with Jupiter opposite Saturn a deliberate alternation between them tends to work better than treating it as a permanent choice.
Saturn opposition Neptune
3.3° applying
Grounded, practical planning sits opposite a tendency towards doubt, or disillusionment about whether the effort is worth it, and Winona is likely to know both. Checking in with the original inspiration, and not only with the workload, tends to restore the balance.
Mercury conjunction Venus
3.4° applying
Mercury conjunct Venus ties Winona's thinking closely to what they love, so they probably talk about affection and beauty with ease. It lends a diplomatic, pleasant way of putting things, especially when the subject is close to the heart.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Pluto0.9°
- Venus square Mars3.9°
- Saturn trine Pluto4.3°
- Moon square Neptune4.7°
- Mars square Neptune5.8°
- Jupiter conjunction Neptune6.5°
Winona Ryder in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Scorpio Sun and Pisces Moon, like Winona Ryder
Also born on 29 October
Winona Ryder in the StarMap archive
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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