Danai Gurira
Danai Gurira (born February 14, 1978, Grinnell, United States), aged 48, is a Zimbabwean-American actress. Notable films include Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and The Walking Dead. Gurira's honours include Satellite Awards, Saturn Awards and Black Reel Awards.
Danai Gurira’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Danai
Danai Gurira’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Danai in the U.S.?
#8998
US rank in 2025
~431
Americans share it since 1975
2022
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Danai falls under that line for 1978. Its peak came in 2022, and 431 Americans have carried it since 1975.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Danai’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Danai’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Danai apart
Danai Gurira took the Obie Award in 2006, at 28.
Training came by way of Dominican Convent High School and New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
The working life starts in 2005, at 27.
Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Dominican Convent High School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Macalester College
- Awards
- Satellite Awards (2012), Saturn Awards (2014) and Black Reel Awards (2014)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play and Black Reel Awards
- Working from
- 2005
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Danai, according to the stars
Core essence
Danai is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Danai is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Danai 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 Danai needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Danai wants to be loved
Danai wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Danai, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Danai creates
How Danai makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Danai creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Danai is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Danai 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 Danai 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 Danai's birth date. Working below.
Where Danai sits
Six lines
Danai’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Danai Gurira
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grinnell 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 Grinnell that night
Computed for 41.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Grinnell at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.7°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 Grinnell at all: they sit past the −48.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 52% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grinnell, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · New York City
Wikidata records Los Angeles and New York City as Danai Gurira's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Danai Gurira: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Danai's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Danai Gurira's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Danai Gurira was born on February 14, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Danai Gurira's birth date, February 14, 1978, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Danai’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Danai Gurira's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto.
- Danai Gurira combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Danai’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Taurus 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Danai’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Danai’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Danai’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.9° to 2.6° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.0° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.8° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Danai’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 4°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 18°46′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 17°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.3°
- Eros square Neptune 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.8°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.9°
Danai’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Danai’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.8°
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More charts like Danai’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Harrison SmithAmerican football player
- Saquon BarkleyAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jake ElliottAmerican football kicker
Born in Horse years
- Halle BerryAmerican actress
- John TravoltaAmerican actor
- Harrison FordAmerican actor
Also born on February 14
- Ángel Di María1988
- Michael Bloomberg1942
- Karol G1991
- Freddie Highmore1992
- Stephen A. Schwarzman1947
- Florence Henderson1934
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Nikkie de JagerDutch video blogger and make-up artist
- Amelia Gray HamlinAmerican model and television personality
- Hailey ClausonAmerican model
Other Aquarius Horse charts
- Emma RobertsAmerican actress, singer, model and producer
- Tatyana AliAmerican actress and singer
- Paul AndersonEnglish actor (1978-)
- Gene HackmanAmerican actor and novelist
Other Radiant Architects
- Anass Salah-EddineMoroccan association football player
- Josip ŠutaloCroation association football player
- Jaxson DartAmerican football quarterback
- Dre'mont JonesAmerican football player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Ava MaxAmerican singer and songwriter
- Kristi NoemAmerican politician (born 1971)
- Bill CassidyAmerican physician and politician (born 1957)
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Danai’s cards
Computed from February 14, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Danai’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q636653 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Danai Gurira 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 Danai Gurira.
Quick answers about Danai Gurira’s chart
- How old is Danai Gurira?
- Danai Gurira is 48 years old, born February 14, 1978 in Grinnell, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Danai Gurira?
- Danai Gurira is an Aquarius: born February 14, 1978, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Danai Gurira's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1978 birth.
- What is Danai Gurira's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Danai Gurira's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Danai Gurira's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Danai Gurira's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
