Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948, Peoria, United States; died 2026), was an American novelist. Simmons is best remembered for Hyperion and Song of Kali. Simmons's honours include Bram Stoker Award for Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Dan Simmons’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Dan Simmons’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Dan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Dan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Dan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Dan creates
How Dan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Dan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Dan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Dan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Peoria on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Dan Simmons's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Dan Simmons was born on April 4, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Dan Simmons's birth date, April 4, 1948, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Dan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dan Simmons' date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- Dan Simmons combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Dan Simmons, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Aquarius 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Dan’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
Dan’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Dan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrinePluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
Dan’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
Dan’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb
Dan’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineMars3.0° to 3.9° orb
Dan’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Dan’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileUranus4.3° orb
Dan’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.4° orb
Dan’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.0° to 6.6° orb
Dan’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.7° orb
Dan’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth 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 ℞Scorpio 24°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Dan carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 22°35′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Dan is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 15°33′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Dan is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°17′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Dan needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Dan at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about 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.
- Eros trine Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.1°
- Eros trine Mars 2.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.9°
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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Dan is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Mercury · Jupiter, Uranus, MercuryAn 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dan Simmons, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Dan
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- Stevie NicksAmerican singer and songwriter born 1948
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Also born on April 4
- Maya Angelou1928
- Robert Downey Jr.1965
- Heath Ledger1979
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Natasha Lyonne1979
- Jill Scott1972
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Warren L. LerudeAmerican journalist and professor of journalism
- Manny CrisostomoPulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Guam
- Anton TroianovskiSoviet-born American journalist
Other Aries Rat charts
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- Tracy K. SmithAmerican poet (born 1972)
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Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Abdus SalamTheoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Dan’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Dan Simmons, 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 Q297538, 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 Glen Engel-Cox, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan Simmons at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Simmons.
Quick answers about Dan Simmons’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dan Simmons?
- Dan Simmons was an Aries: born April 4, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- What was Dan Simmons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1948 birth.
- What time was Dan Simmons 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 was Dan Simmons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1948 birth date.
- What was Dan Simmons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1948 birth date.
- Where was Dan Simmons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dan Simmons's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
