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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Dana’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dana 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 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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Dana Priest, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Dana’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
Dana’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquarePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb
Dana’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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 ℞Aquarius 17°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Dana making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresGemini 0°42′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Dana feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosGemini 23°14′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Dana is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAries 6°35′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Dana feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 29°37′ (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 Dana 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.
- 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°
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°).
Dana’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Dana is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Dana’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dana Priest, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Dana’s cards
Every card is computed from May 23, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Dana Priest, 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
Dana’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5214807, 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 Miller Center, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dana Priest at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- 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 time was Dana Priest 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 Dana Priest's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 23, 1957 birth date.
- What is Dana Priest's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 23, 1957 birth date.
- 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.
