Claire Danes
Claire Danes (born April 12, 1979, Manhattan, United States), aged 47, is an American actor. Notable films include Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Hours and Stardust. Danes's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film.
Claire Danes’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Goat, with 
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Claire Danes’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Claire in the U.S.?
#68
US rank in 2025
~214,123
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Claire’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Claire, according to the stars
Core essence
Claire leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Claire is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Claire wants to be loved
Claire 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 Claire, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Claire creates
How Claire 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. Claire 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: Claire 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 6 is the nurturer. Claire is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Claire gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Claire's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Claire sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Claire Danes's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 12, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Claire Danes was born on April 12, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Claire Danes's birth date, April 12, 1979, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Claire’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claire Danes' date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Claire Danes combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Claire’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Claire Danes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.7° orb
Claire’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Claire’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineUranus2.0° to 3.3° orb
Claire’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 2.7° orb
Claire’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.3° to 3.6° orb
Claire’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
Claire’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
Claire’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.5° to 5.3° orb
Claire’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareNeptune6.4° to 6.9° orb
Claire’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb
Claire’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Claire’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°16′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Claire building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 19°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Claire is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 10°54′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Claire is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Claire needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Claire is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.0°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Claire’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Claire is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Claire’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Claire Danes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Claire’s family here
One relative of Claire Danes also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Claire
Jennifer Morrison was born on April 12, 1979 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Claire’s cards
Every card is computed from April 12, 1979, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Claire Danes, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Claire’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q867813, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claire Danes at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Claire Danes.
Quick answers about Claire Danes’s chart
- How old is Claire Danes?
- Claire Danes is 47 years old, born April 12, 1979 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Claire Danes?
- Claire Danes is an Aries: born April 12, 1979, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
- What is Claire Danes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1979 birth.
- What time was Claire Danes born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Claire Danes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 12, 1979 birth date.
- What is Claire Danes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 12, 1979 birth date.
- Where is Claire Danes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Claire Danes's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
