Dan Wells
Dan Wells (born March 4, 1977, Utah, United States), aged 49, is an American horror writer. Wells is best known for I Am Not a Serial Killer. Wells's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Whitney Awards.
Dan Wells’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Dan
Dan Wells’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Of the names registered in 1977, Dan came 402nd, carried by 378 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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
What keeps Dan Wells in print: I Am Not a Serial Killer.
West High School and Brigham Young University shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2000, at 23.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Dan Wells: People from North Salt Lake, Utah, Novelists from Utah and American writers of young adult literature.
The same date carries Nacho Figueras. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
- Educated at
- West High School and Brigham Young University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2013) and Whitney Awards (2009)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Novella
- Working from
- 2000
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Dan, according to the stars
Core essence
Dan feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Dan is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Dan wants to be loved
Dan wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Dan creates
How Dan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Dan creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Dan is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Dan goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Wells
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Utah 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 Utah that night
Computed for 39.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Utah at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Gemini.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Utah at all: they sit past the −50.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Dan's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Dan Wells's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 4, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Dan Wells was born on March 4, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Dan Wells's birth date, March 4, 1977, 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 Wells' date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Dan Wells combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Dan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.5° orb
Dan’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Dan’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.6° to 2.4° orb
Dan’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.9° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.0° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAries 28°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 8°18′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°52′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 14°59′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Eros trine Venus 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.9°
Dan’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dan’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Saturn, UranusAn 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.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Born the same day as Dan
Nacho Figueras was born on March 4, 1977 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Utah sits at 39.5°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Pisces suns
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- Atthaya ThitikulThai professional golfer
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Born in Snake years
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- Emma ChamberlainAmerican media personality
- Huh Yun-jinSouth Korean-American singer-songwriter
Also born on March 4
- Miriam Makeba1932
- Khaled Hosseini1965
- Angela White1985
- Sam Taylor-Johnson1967
- Brooklyn Beckham1999
- K. Michelle1985
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Theo JohnsonCanadian player of American football
- Charlie SmythIrish player of American football
- Kevin ByardAmerican football player (born 1993)
Other Pisces Snake charts
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- Robin ThickeAmerican singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1977)
- Sandy Yawnactress
Other Gilded Explorers
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- Alex TurnerBritish musician
- Coco GauffAmerican tennis player
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Debbie Wasserman SchultzU.S. Representative from Florida
- Pete ButtigiegAmerican politician (born 1982)
- Ron WydenAmerican politician and educator (born 1949)
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Dan’s cards
Computed from March 4, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q82349 (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 Coltonlg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dan Wells at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dan Wells.
Quick answers about Dan Wells’s chart
- How old is Dan Wells?
- Dan Wells is 49 years old, born March 4, 1977 in Utah, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dan Wells?
- Dan Wells is a Pisces: born March 4, 1977, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Dan Wells's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 4, 1977 birth.
- What is Dan Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dan Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dan Wells's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dan Wells's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
