Dana Priest
Dana Priest (born May 23, 1957, Canoga Park, United States), aged 69, is an American journalist. Priest's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, George Polk Award and Worth Bingham Prize.
Dana Priest’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Dana
Dana Priest’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
Dana ranked 155th among girls and 186th among boys in 1957, the year of this birth, with 2,408 American girls and 1,619 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dana’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Dana apart
Dana Priest took the Heywood Broun Award in 2007, at 50.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of California, Santa Cruz.
On the family side, Dana Priest was married William Goodfellow.
Wikipedia's editors put Dana Priest under Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting winners, University of California, Santa Cruz alumni and American investigative journalists.
John Bardeen (1908) and Rubens Barrichello (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Awards
- George Polk Award (2010), Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2008) and Carey McWilliams Award (2012)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Dana, according to the stars
Core essence
Dana is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Dana needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Dana wants to be loved
Dana wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Dana like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Dana creates
How Dana makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Dana creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Dana is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dana is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Dana does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
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 Priest
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Canoga Park 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 Canoga Park that night
Computed for 34.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Canoga Park was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 80.4° up.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Canoga Park at all: they sit past the −55.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 28% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Dana's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 Priest at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Dana Priest's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 23, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Dana Priest was born on May 23, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Dana Priest's birth date, May 23, 1957, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Dana’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dana Priest's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Dana Priest combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Dana’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.7° orb
Dana’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileUranus0.9° to 1.8° orb
Dana’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Dana’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.6° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.5° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Dana’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 0°42′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°14′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 6°35′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 29°37′ (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 Neptune 0.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.9°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 3.0°
Dana’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dana’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Mercury, Mars, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
More people like Dana
Other journalists
- Allen Steele1958
- Eileen McNamara1952
- Alix M. Freedman1957
- Chuck Philips1952
- Leonard Pitts1957
- Michael Hiltzik1952
Born in United States
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- Jenifer LewisAmerican actress
- Michael WilliamsonAmerican photographer
- Vanna WhiteAmerican model and game show hostess
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on May 23
- John Bardeen1908
- Rubens Barrichello1972
- Ryan Coogler1986
- James Charles1999
- Steve Lacy1998
- Mohamed Ramadan1988
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Thelonious MonkAmerican jazz pianist and composer
- Saul FriedländerIsraeli historian and Holocaust survivor (born 1932)
- Perry MillerAmerican historian
Other Gemini Rooster charts
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- Olivier SarkozyFrench-American businessman
- Amy SchumerAmerican comedian and actress (born 1981)
Other Evergreen Explorers
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- Jane EspensonAmerican television writer and producer
- Dave GibbonsEnglish comics artist and writer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- August WilsonAmerican playwright
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Dana’s cards
Computed from May 23, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dana’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5214807 (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 Miller Center, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dana Priest at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dana Priest.
Quick answers about Dana Priest’s chart
- How old is Dana Priest?
- Dana Priest is 69 years old, born May 23, 1957 in Canoga Park, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dana Priest?
- Dana Priest is a Gemini: born May 23, 1957, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Dana Priest's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1957 birth.
- What is Dana Priest's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dana Priest's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dana Priest's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dana Priest's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
