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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Claire
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
Claire ranked 401st in 1979, the year of this birth, with 539 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Claire’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Claire’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1979, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Claire apart
Claire Danes took the Young Artist Awards in 1994, at 15.
New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies and Professional Performing Arts School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1992, at 13.
On the family side, Claire Danes was raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Claire Danes under Lycée Français de Los Angeles alumni, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Screen Actors Guild Award winners and Dalton School alumni.
The same date carries Jennifer Morrison. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, Professional Performing Arts School and HB Studio
- Awards
- Young Artist Awards (1994), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film (2010) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2013)
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series/Anthology or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Working from
- 1992
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
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. Working below.
Where Claire sits
Six lines
Claire’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Claire Danes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 25° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Claire's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenussquareNeptune2.3° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.5° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune6.4° to 6.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.2° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°16′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 19°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°54′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Claire’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Claire’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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 and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Manhattan, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Claire
Other actors
- Chris Pratt1979
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Jenny Mollen1979
- Jason Isbell1979
- Maggie Q1979
- Mena Suvari1979
Born in United States
- Pete WentzAmerican musician
- Jordan PeeleAmerican actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Jenny MollenAmerican actress
- Benji MaddenAmerican rock musician
- Maggie QAmerican actress
- Joel MaddenAmerican singer, musician and songwriter
More charts like Claire’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Arthur MitchellAmerican dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Manuel NeuerGerman association football player (born 1986)
- Yassine BounouMoroccan association football player
Born in Goat years
- Keshon GilbertAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- John PoulakidasAmerican basketball player
- Tobi LawalEnglish basketball player (born 2003)
Also born on April 12
- Lisa Gerrard1961
- Shannen Doherty1971
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Snail MailSolo musical project of Lindsey Jordan
- girl in redNorwegian musician (born 1999)
- Rico RodriguezAmerican actor
Other Aries Goat charts
- Ant AnsteadEnglish television presenter, motor specialist and designer
- Lake BellAmerican actress, director and screenwriter (born 1979)
- Robyn DixonAmerican reality television personality
- Margaret JosephsAmerican businesswoman and television personality
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Thomas MannGerman novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Richard Ben CramerAmerican journalist
- Marya ZaturenskaUkrainian-American poet
- Donald L. CoburnAmerican dramatist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ronnie RiversAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Tommy EichenbergAmerican football player
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Claire’s cards
Computed from April 12, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claire’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q867813 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Claire Danes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Claire Danes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
