Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman (born January 24, 1941, Tel Aviv, Israel), aged 85, is an Israeli scientist. Shechtman's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Israel Prize and James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials.
Dan Shechtman’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Dan
Dan Shechtman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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
Dan ranked 152nd in 1941, the year of this birth, with 1,154 American boys 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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
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 1940, 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 Shechtman took the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials in 1987, at 46.
Training came by way of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
On the family side, Dan Shechtman was married Zipora Shechtman and Tzipora Shechtman and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Dan Shechtman under EMET Prize recipients in the Exact Sciences, Israeli chemists and Crystallographers.
The same date carries Neil Diamond and Gary K. Wolf. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011), Israel Prize (1998) and Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
- Citizenship
- United States and Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Dan, according to the stars
Core essence
Dan is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Dan is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Dan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Dan Shechtman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv that night
Computed for 32.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tel Aviv at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 8.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 32.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −57.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tel Aviv on any night.
Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon down and 9% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Dan's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · No Water 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 →Dan Shechtman at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Dan Shechtman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Dan Shechtman was born on January 24, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Dan Shechtman's birth date, January 24, 1941, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Dan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dan Shechtman's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dan Shechtman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.0° orb
Dan’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.3° orb
Dan’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.4° orb
Dan’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.8° to 5.5° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Dan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 28°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°17′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 2°30′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°13′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
Dan’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Dan’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn 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 semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
Born the same day as Dan
2 other people here were born on January 24, 1941, 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 Tel Aviv, at 32.1°N, nothing below −57.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Dragon years
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Dan’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44111 (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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan Shechtman 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 Shechtman.
Quick answers about Dan Shechtman’s chart
- How old is Dan Shechtman?
- Dan Shechtman is 85 years old, born January 24, 1941 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Dan Shechtman?
- Dan Shechtman is an Aquarius: born January 24, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Dan Shechtman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1941 birth.
- What is Dan Shechtman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dan Shechtman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dan Shechtman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dan Shechtman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
