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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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 1880
2022
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Danai’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Danai sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Danai Gurira, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Taurus 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.
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
Danai’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.0° to 2.1° orb
Danai’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb
Danai’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Danai’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.8° orb
Danai’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineJupiter4.6° to 5.9° orb
Danai’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
Danai’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Danai building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 4°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Danai caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosPisces 18°46′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Danai is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 17°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Danai is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Danai guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Danai’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Danai is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Danai’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Danai Gurira, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from February 14, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Danai Gurira, 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
Danai’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q636653, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Danai Gurira 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 Danai Gurira's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1978 birth date.
- What is Danai Gurira's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1978 birth date.
- 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.
