Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews (born January 1, 1909, Collins, United States; died 1992), was an American actor. Andrews served as President of SAG.
Dana Andrews’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Dana
Dana Andrews’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Dana in the U.S.?
#1027
US rank in 2025
~246,842
Americans share it since 1880
1971
its peak year
In 1909, 16 American boys and 13 girls were registered Dana — 689th among boys and 1,164th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dana’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dana’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Dana apart
Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dana, according to the stars
Core essence
Dana is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dana is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Dana is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Dana needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Dana wants to be loved
Dana wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Dana and watch them fall for you again.
How Dana creates
How Dana makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Dana creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Dana is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dana 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dana runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Dana's birth date. Working below.
Where Dana sits
Six lines
Dana’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Dana Andrews
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Collins 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 Collins that night
Computed for 31.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Atik stood nearest the zenith over Collins at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.3° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Collins sits at 31.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Collins at all: they sit past the −58.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 80% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Dana's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 2 unaspected 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 →Dana Andrews at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Dana Andrews's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Dana Andrews was born on January 1, 1909, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Dana Andrews's birth date, January 1, 1909, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Dana’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dana Andrews' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dana Andrews combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Dana’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Taurus 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Dana’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.1° to 1.6° orb
Dana’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.4° to 2.1° orb
Dana’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus2.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.4° to 6.4° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Dana’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°60′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 21°44′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°58′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°39′ (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 trine Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.7°
Dana’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus
Configurations in Dana’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
More people like Dana
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- Sylvia Sidney1910
- Robert Young1907
- Paulette Goddard1910
- Katharine Hepburn1907
- Scatman Crothers1910
Born in United States
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Joseph P. LashAmerican political activist
- Fred MacMurrayAmerican actor
- James AgeeAmerican author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic
- William SaroyanArmenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
- John M. HightowerAmerican reporter
More charts like Dana’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Ratan TataIndian industrialist
- Kristin KreukCanadian actress
- Alex TurnerBritish musician
Born in Monkey years
- Roy ScheiderAmerican actor
- Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor
- Nils PoppeSwedish entertainer
Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Trent ScottAmerican football offensive tackle
- Andy DaltonAmerican football player (born 1987)
- Skyy MooreAmerican football player
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
- Buford Booneeditor and part-owner of the Tuscaloosa News
- Walter PincusAmerican journalist
- Abigail NussbaumIsraeli SF fandom blogger and critic
- Victor BorgeDanish comedian and pianist
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Bill CosbyAmerican actor and comedian (born 1937)
- Lisa EdelsteinAmerican actress (born 1966)
- Brooke ElliottAmerican actress and singer
- Tarek El MoussaTV personality and real estate investor
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Landon DickersonAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jeremy RuckertAmerican football tight end
- Joe TippmannAmerican football player (born 2001)
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Dana’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dana’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q365633 (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 László Josef Willinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dana Andrews at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dana Andrews.
Quick answers about Dana Andrews’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dana Andrews?
- Dana Andrews was a Capricorn: born January 1, 1909, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Dana Andrews's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1909 birth.
- What was Dana Andrews's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dana Andrews's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dana Andrews's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dana Andrews's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
