Dan Friedkin
Dan Friedkin (born February 27, 1965, San Diego, United States), aged 61, is an American businessman.
Dan Friedkin’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Dan
Dan Friedkin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
In 1965, 1,992 American boys and 6 girls were registered Dan — 155th among boys and 5,941st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 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 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Dan apart
The schooling ran through Rice University and Georgetown University.
The family line: born to Thomas H. Friedkin.
Noah Emmerich shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Rice University and Georgetown University
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Dan, according to the stars
Core essence
Dan feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Dan 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.
How Dan wants to be loved
Dan wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Dan be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dan 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Dan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Dan Friedkin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego 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 San Diego that night
Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at San Diego was Castor, in Gemini, 87.7° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
San Diego sits at 32.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −57.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Diego, United States
- Lives in
- Houston
Wikidata records Houston as Dan Friedkin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dan Friedkin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Dan's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Dan Friedkin's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Dan Friedkin was born on February 27, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Dan Friedkin's birth date, February 27, 1965, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Dan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dan Friedkin's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dan Friedkin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.7° orb
Dan’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Dan’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 1.7° orb
Dan’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Dan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 23°01′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°56′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 4°54′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°40′ (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 trine Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.9°
Dan’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
disposes Neptune; 7 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Dan’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Born the same day as Dan
Noah Emmerich was born on February 27, 1965 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 San Diego, at 32.7°N, nothing below −57.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like Dan’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Mario MolinaMexican chemical engineer
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general
- Mikhail Gorbachevleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
Born in Snake years
- Peter FirthEnglish actor (born 1953)
- Paul LynchIrish writer (born 1977)
- Michael AtiyahBritish mathematician
Also born on February 27
- John Steinbeck1902
- Elizabeth Taylor1932
- James Wan1977
- Kenzō Takada1939
- Sara Blakely1971
- JWoww1985
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Hunter ParrishAmerican actor
- Hilary SwankAmerican actress (born 1974)
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Other Pisces Snake charts
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Other Tidal Explorers
- Alijah MartinAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Joseph QuinnBritish actor
- Jasmine Borrero TookesAmerican model
- Brittany BroskiAmerican social media personality
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Gerard 't HooftDutch theoretical physicist
- Ragnar GranitFinnish scientist
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From the journal: Do twins have the same birth chart? · Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why
Dan’s cards
Computed from February 27, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
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 Q19879918 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dan Friedkin.
Quick answers about Dan Friedkin’s chart
- How old is Dan Friedkin?
- Dan Friedkin is 61 years old, born February 27, 1965 in San Diego, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dan Friedkin?
- Dan Friedkin is a Pisces: born February 27, 1965, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Dan Friedkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1965 birth.
- What is Dan Friedkin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dan Friedkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dan Friedkin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dan Friedkin's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
