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Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert (born January 17, 1962, Detroit, United States), aged 64, is an American businessman.

Dan Gilbert’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Dan Gilbert’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

Dan ranked 120th among boys and 5,995th among girls in 1962, the year of this birth, with 3,117 American boys and 6 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5).

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

9 · 1

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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

Wayne State University Law School and Southfield-Lathrup High School shaped the training.

The same date carries Jim Carrey. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Wayne State University Law School, Southfield-Lathrup High School and Michigan State University
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
16

What the chart says

Dan, according to the stars

Core essence

Dan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Dan processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Dan needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Dan wants to be loved

Dan wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Dan you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Dan creates

How Dan makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Dan creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Dan is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Dan is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Dan does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Dan

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

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

PrivateExpressive
Dan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Dan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dan

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dan Gilbert

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

Dan’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 82.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 42.3°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 −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Detroit, United States
Lives in
Franklin

Wikidata records Franklin as Dan Gilbert'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 Gilbert: 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 Capricorn · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Dan Gilbert's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Dan Gilbert was born on January 17, 1962, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Dan Gilbert's birth date, January 17, 1962, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Dan’s chart

Dan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.5° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.9° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 6.6° orbSun in Capricorn · 27°07′☉27°Moon in Gemini · 22°15′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°15′☿15°Venus in Capricorn · 24°47′♀24°Mars in Capricorn · 18°13′♂18°Jupiter in Aquarius · 14°17′♃14°Saturn in Aquarius · 1°38′♄1°Uranus in Leo · 29°46′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°17′♆13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°48′ · retrograde♇℞9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Dan’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.9° to 1.1° orb

    Dan’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 2.6° orb

    Dan’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus2.2° to 2.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.3° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.7° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarssextileNeptuneorb from 4.6° to 5.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 3°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°30′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°22′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.8°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.3°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.2°

Dan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Dan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Venus, 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Venus biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.9°

Born the same day as Dan

Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Detroit, at 42.3°N, nothing below −47.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Dan’s cards

Computed from January 17, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3290675 (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 Gilbert.

Quick answers about Dan Gilbert’s chart

How old is Dan Gilbert?
Dan Gilbert is 64 years old, born January 17, 1962 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dan Gilbert?
Dan Gilbert is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1962, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Dan Gilbert's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1962 birth.
What is Dan Gilbert's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Dan Gilbert's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dan Gilbert's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dan Gilbert's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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