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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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
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 · 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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dan sits
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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.
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Dan Wells in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Dan Wells, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Dan’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° orb
Dan’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
Dan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.3° orb
Dan’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarstrinePluto4.1° to 4.9° orb
Dan’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb
Dan’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune5.9° to 6.3° orb
Dan’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareUranus6.0° to 6.8° orb
Dan’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.5° to 7.3° orb
Dan’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 28°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Dan may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 8°18′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Dan is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°52′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Dan attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 14°59′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Dan is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Dan is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Dan is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 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 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 quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dan Wells, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Dan
Nacho Figueras was born on March 4, 1977 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Dan’s cards
Every card is computed from March 4, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Dan Wells, 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 Q82349, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was Dan Wells 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 Wells's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the March 4, 1977 birth date.
- What is Dan Wells's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 4, 1977 birth date.
- 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.
