Dan O'Bannon
Dan O'Bannon (born September 30, 1946, St. Louis, United States; died 2009), was an American film director, screenwriter, actor. O'Bannon's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and Inkpot Award.
Dan O'Bannon’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Dan
Dan O'Bannon’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 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 1946, Dan came 116th among boys and 3,066th among girls, carried by 2,194 American boys and 11 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
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
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Blush · Scarlet
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 1946, 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
Dan O'Bannon took the Inkpot Award in 1985, at 39.
Training came by way of USC School of Cinematic Arts and McCluer High School.
Cause of death is recorded as Crohn's disease.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Dan O'Bannon: Film directors from Missouri, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alumni and Deaths from Crohn's disease.
Monica Bellucci (1964) and Max Verstappen (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- USC School of Cinematic Arts, McCluer High School and University of Southern California
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (1985) and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1987)
- Working from
- 1953
- Cause of death
- Crohn's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 28
What the chart says
Dan, according to the stars
Core essence
Dan makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Dan 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, Dan 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 Dan 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 Dan wants to be loved
Dan 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 Dan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Dan creates
How Dan 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. Dan 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: Dan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dan runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 11.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.6°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 −51.4° 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 crescent, 29% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- St. Louis, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dan O'Bannon: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Dan O'Bannon's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Dan O'Bannon was born on September 30, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Dan O'Bannon's birth date, September 30, 1946, 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 O'Bannon's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dan O'Bannon 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.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Sagittarius 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Dan’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb
Dan’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.7° orb
Dan’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.1° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.3° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 6.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 6.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Dan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 24°14′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 5°15′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 28°26′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.7°
- Chiron trine Uranus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.7°
Dan’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dan’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
More people like Dan
Other screenwriters
- Albert Brooks1947
- John Banville1945
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Danny DeVito1944
- John Ratzenberger1947
- John Waters1946
Born in United States
- Walter A. McDougallAmerican historian
- Danny GloverAmerican actor (born 1946)
- Susan SarandonAmerican actress and activist
- Michael MilkenAmerican investor
- Sally FieldAmerican actress
- Bill ClintonPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001
More charts like Dan’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Max ThieriotAmerican actor
- Randy SpellingAmerican actor
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
Born in Dog years
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist
- Marjorie EstianoBrazilian actress and singer
- Uma ThurmanAmerican actress and model
Also born on September 30
- Monica Bellucci1964
- Max Verstappen1997
- Barry Marshall1951
- Ezra Miller1992
- Fran Drescher1957
- T-Pain1984
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Matt DillonAmerican actor
- Eliza DushkuAmerican actress
- Viola DavisAmerican actress and producer (born 1965)
Other Libra Dog charts
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- Tim RobbinsAmerican actor
- Ranbir KapoorIndian actor
- HalseyAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Louis PartridgeBritish actor (born 2003)
- Black SherifGhanaian singer and rapper
- Dixie D'AmelioAmerican influencer (born 2001)
- Tyler HerroAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Mark HamillAmerican actor (born 1951)
- Julia FoxItalian-American actress
- Corey FeldmanAmerican actor and musician
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Dan’s cards
Computed from September 30, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q498430 (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 JaSunni at PicasaWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan O'Bannon at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dan O'Bannon.
Quick answers about Dan O'Bannon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dan O'Bannon?
- Dan O'Bannon was a Libra: born September 30, 1946, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Dan O'Bannon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1946 birth.
- What was Dan O'Bannon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dan O'Bannon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dan O'Bannon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dan O'Bannon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
