Dan Caine
Dan Caine (born August 10, 1968, Elmira, United States), aged 58, is an U.S. Air Force general. Caine has held office as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Caine's honours include Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Defense Superior Service Medal.
Dan Caine’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Dan
Dan Caine’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Dan in the U.S.?
#1962
US rank in 2025
~107,130
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1968, Dan came 191st among boys and 4,850th among girls, carried by 1,271 American boys and 9 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Dan apart
Kylie Jenner (1997) and Javier Zanetti (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dan, according to the stars
Core essence
Dan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Dan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Dan is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Dan needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Dan wants to be loved
Dan wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Dan and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Dan creates
How Dan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Dan creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Dan is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Dan 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Dan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Dan's birth date. Working below.
Where Dan sits
Six lines
Dan’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Dan Caine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elmira 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 Elmira that night
Computed for 42.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Elmira was Rastaban, in Draco, 79.3° up.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Elmira on any night.
The Moon, 92% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
How unusual Dan's chart is
Chart pattern score
81 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Leo
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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Dan Caine's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 10, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Dan Caine was born on August 10, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Dan Caine's birth date, August 10, 1968, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Dan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dan Caine's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dan Caine combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Pisces 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 3.3° orb
Dan’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
Dan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 3.9° orb
Dan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.1° to 5.1° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.6° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 1.3° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 4.6° to 17.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineSaturnorb from 6.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Dan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°50′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°51′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 14°14′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.4°
- Ceres square Mars 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.8°
Dan’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Dan’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.- Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.8°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on August 10
- Kylie Jenner1997
- Javier Zanetti1973
- Betsey Johnson1942
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- Sophia BushAmerican actress
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- Tom BradyAmerican football player
Other Leo Monkey charts
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Other Tidal Guardians
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Dan’s cards
Computed from August 10, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107474595 (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 U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan Caine at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dan Caine.
Quick answers about Dan Caine’s chart
- How old is Dan Caine?
- Dan Caine is 58 years old, born August 10, 1968 in Elmira, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dan Caine?
- Dan Caine is a Leo: born August 10, 1968, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Dan Caine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 10, 1968 birth.
- What is Dan Caine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dan Caine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dan Caine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dan Caine's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
