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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Dan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dan sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Dan Shechtman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Dan’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupitersquarePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
Dan’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
Dan’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.8° to 5.5° orb
Dan’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.4° to 5.6° orb
Dan’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.9° orb
Dan’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.9° orb
Dan’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
Dan’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
Dan’s affections flow straight into their growth.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 28°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Dan is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°17′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Dan is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 2°30′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Dan is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 3°13′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Dan feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Dan carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Dan’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Dan is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Dan’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dan Shechtman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Dan
2 other people here were born on January 24, 1941, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Dan’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Dan Shechtman, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44111, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan Shechtman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Dan Shechtman born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Dan Shechtman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1941 birth date.
- What is Dan Shechtman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1941 birth date.
- 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.
