Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson (born October 4, 1989, Austin, United States, 14:49), aged 37, is an American actress. Johnson is best known for Crazy in Alabama. Johnson's honours include Golden Globe Ambassador, People's Choice Awards and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.
Dakota Johnson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Dakota
Dakota Johnson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 1989, Dakota came 296th among boys and 1,048th among girls, carried by 824 American boys and 163 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dakota’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1989, 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
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
What the chart says
Dakota, according to the stars
Core essence
Dakota makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Dakota is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Dakota is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Dakota needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Dakota wants to be loved
Dakota wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Dakota even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Dakota creates
How Dakota makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Dakota creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Dakota is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dakota is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Dakota fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Dakota Johnson
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Read from the sky above Austin at 14:49, Dakota Johnson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Austin that night
Computed for 30.30°N, at the documented birth time.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Austin at the birth hour, 82.2° above the horizon in Boötes.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 30.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 21% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -49° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Austin, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Malibu
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Malibu as Dakota Johnson's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Austin, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as supportive for this chart: 68 of 100, 48th of 173 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Boston, United States, 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 卯
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Dakota Johnson's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.
What Libra means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Dakota Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Dakota Johnson's birth date, October 4, 1989, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Dakota’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Dakota Johnson's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mars in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Saturn in the 1st house, Uranus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Dakota Johnson's timed chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Dakota Johnson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 0.0° orb
Dakota’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 0.1° orb
Dakota’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb
Dakota’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiteroppositionNeptuneseparating · 0.3° orb
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 1.7° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 1.9° orb
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.9° orb
MarssquareSaturnseparating · 2.1° orb
JupiteroppositionSaturnseparating · 2.2° orb
SunsquareSaturnseparating · 3.8° orb
JupitertrinePlutoapplying · 3.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.1° orb
MoonsextileMarsapplying · 4.7° orb
MercurysquareUranusapplying · 5.8° orb
SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Dakota’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironCancer 16°14′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 2°41′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 29°15′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 22°35′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°38′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Ascendant 1.4°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.4°
Dakota’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn14 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars7 pts
angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Dakota’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Saturn, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Saturn, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Moon biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
Dakota’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 1 | Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 10 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 12 | Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Libra, house 10 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 9 | Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 11 | Sun, Mars | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 11 | Venus, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 7 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Dakota Johnson also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Fellow Libra suns
- Patson DakaZambian association football player
- Zheng QinwenChinese tennis player
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Born in Snake years
- Jonathan Rhys MeyersIrish actor (born 1977)
- Samantha RonsonBritish singer, songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (born 1977)
- Jake PavelkaAmerican pilot who appeared on four reality TV programs
Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Christoph Waltz1956
- Alicia Silverstone1976
- Melissa Benoist1988
- Liev Schreiber1967
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Max MitchellAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Zach TomAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Mason TaylorAmerican football player (born 2004)
Other Libra Snake charts
- Christian de DuveBelgian biochemist, cytologist
- Severo OchoaSpanish physician
- Rodney Robert PorterEnglish biochemist and Nobel laureate
- Thelonious MonkAmerican jazz pianist and composer
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Antonia Ax:son JohnsonSwedish businesswoman, 4th generation family entrepreneur, heiress (Axel Johansongruppen), billionaire, local potitician
- Susanne KlattenGerman businesswoman
- Pierre OmidyarAmerican entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
- Adi GodrejIndian businessman
Other Capricorn risings with documented times
- Clarence ThomasAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991
- Alan AldaAmerican actor (born 1936)
- Eva AmurriAmerican actress
- Drake BellAmerican actor (born 1986)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Travon WalkerAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Trenton SimpsonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Nate WigginsAmerican football player (born 2003)
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Dakota’s cards
Computed from October 4, 1989. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dakota’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2315802 (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 Jan Beránek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dakota Johnson.
Quick answers about Dakota Johnson’s chart
- How old is Dakota Johnson?
- Dakota Johnson is 37 years old, born October 4, 1989 in Austin, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dakota Johnson?
- Dakota Johnson is a Libra: born October 4, 1989, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
- What is Dakota Johnson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1989 birth.
- What time was Dakota Johnson born?
- 14:49 local time in Austin, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Dakota Johnson's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 14:49 birth time in Austin, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Dakota Johnson?
- Dakota Johnson is 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Dakota Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dakota Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dakota Johnson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dakota Johnson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
