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Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994, Conyers, United States, 10:00), aged 32, is an American actress. Notable films include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and War of the Worlds. Fanning's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-S**t Performance and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer.

Dakota Fanning’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Dakota Fanning’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Dakota in the U.S.?

#296

US rank in 2025

~134,576

Americans share it since 1915

1995

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1994, Dakota came 69th among boys and 306th among girls, carried by 5,535 American boys and 895 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dakota’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Dakota’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Rose-gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1994, 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 Dakota apart

Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Dakota, according to the stars

Core essence

Dakota feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Dakota is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Dakota needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Dakota needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Dakota wants to be loved

Dakota 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 Dakota, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Dakota creates

How Dakota makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Dakota creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Dakota is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dakota is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Dakota goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Dakota's birth date. Working below.

Where Dakota sits

Six lines

Dakota’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Dakota

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dakota

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Dakota

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dakota

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Dakota

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dakota

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Dakota Fanning

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Conyers on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Conyers at 10:00, Dakota Fanning’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Conyers that night

Computed for 33.67°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Conyers at the birth hour: Albireo of Cygnus, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −56.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Conyers on any night.

Sun -31° below the horizon, Moon down and 92% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Conyers, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Dakota Fanning's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Conyers, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as supportive for this chart: 74 of 100, 36th of 162 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Gaborone, Botswana, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Dakota's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Treasurer 天府 in 酉

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 5/2

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Pisces

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.

Score your own chart →

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Dakota Fanning's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.

What Pisces means →

Wood Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Dakota Fanning was born on February 23, 1994, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Dakota Fanning's birth date, February 23, 1994, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Dakota’s chart

Dakota’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.8° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.7° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.4° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 5° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 5.2° orbSun in Pisces · 4°46′ · house 11☉4°Moon in Leo · 2°25′ · house 4☽2°Mercury in Aquarius · 27°51′ · house 10 · retrograde☿℞27°Venus in Pisces · 13°49′ · house 11♀13°Mars in Aquarius · 20°42′ · house 10♂20°Jupiter in Scorpio · 14°37′ · house 7♃14°Saturn in Pisces · 3°04′ · house 11♄3°Uranus in Capricorn · 24°36′ · house 9♅24°Neptune in Capricorn · 22°23′ · house 9♆22°Pluto in Scorpio · 28°04′ · house 7♇28°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 5°43′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 5°43′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 22°28′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 22°28′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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AscendantTaurus
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 0.2° orb

    Dakota’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • VenustrineJupiterapplying · 0.8° orb

    Dakota’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • SunconjunctionSaturnseparating · 1.7° orb

    Dakota’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • UranusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 2.2° orb

  • UranussextilePlutoapplying · 3.5° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoseparating · 4.4° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 5.0° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnseparating · 5.2° orb

  • MarssquareJupiterseparating · 6.1° orb

  • SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.9° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.2° orb

  • MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 7.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Dakota’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 6°14′ · House 5

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 6°21′ · House 1

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 12°28′ · House 12

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 22°27′ · House 6

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°11′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Ascendant 0.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Ascendant 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.8°

Dakota’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Dakota’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon quincunx Saturn 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Sun quincunx Moon 2.3°

Dakota’s houses

Dakota’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 11emptyself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Leo, house 4emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Pisces, house 11Moonhome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Pisces, house 11emptywork, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 7Jupiter, Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 7emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Pisces, house 11Uranus, Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Capricorn, house 9Mercury, Marscareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 9Sun, Venus, Saturnfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Aquarius, house 10emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Dakota’s family here

One relative of Dakota Fanning also has a chart on AsterNym.

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Dakota’s cards

Computed from February 23, 1994. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dakota’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q115541 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Crislapi3, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dakota Fanning at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dakota Fanning.

Quick answers about Dakota Fanning’s chart

How old is Dakota Fanning?
Dakota Fanning is 32 years old, born February 23, 1994 in Conyers, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dakota Fanning?
Dakota Fanning is a Pisces: born February 23, 1994, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What is Dakota Fanning's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1994 birth.
What time was Dakota Fanning born?
10:00 local time in Conyers, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Dakota Fanning's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 10:00 birth time in Conyers, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Dakota Fanning?
Dakota Fanning is 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Dakota Fanning's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Dakota Fanning's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 6°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dakota Fanning's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dakota Fanning's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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