Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim (born August 4, 1968, Busan, South Korea), aged 58, is a South Korean-American actor. Notable films include Lost, Spider-Man 2 and 24. Kim's honours include Time 100 and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Daniel Dae Kim’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Dae Kim’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Daniel in the U.S.?
#22
US rank in 2025
~1,991,091
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1968, Daniel came 18th among boys and 1,023rd among girls, carried by 22,012 American boys and 103 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Daniel apart
Daniel Dae Kim took the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2006, at 38.
The classrooms behind this chart: Bryn Mawr College and Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
The working life starts in 1992, at 24.
Barack Obama (1961) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bryn Mawr College, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- Awards
- Time 100 (2025) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2006)
- Nominated for
- Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Action and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Working from
- 1992
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Daniel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Daniel is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Daniel needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Daniel openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Daniel creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel 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 9 is the humanitarian. Daniel is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Daniel 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 Daniel's birth date. Working below.
Where Daniel sits
Six lines
Daniel’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Daniel Dae Kim
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Busan 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 Busan that night
Computed for 35.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Busan was Vega, in Lyra, 76.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.2°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 Busan at all: they sit past the −54.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 80% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Leo · No Air 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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Daniel Dae Kim's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Daniel Dae Kim was born on August 4, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Daniel Dae Kim's birth date, August 4, 1968, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Dae Kim's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Daniel Dae Kim combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Daniel’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb
Daniel’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileUranus1.9° to 2.5° orb
Daniel’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.0° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.5° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°59′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 10°55′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°10′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.6°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.8°
- Eros square Mercury 2.9°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Daniel’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, 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.
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.8°
More people like Daniel
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- Aaron Eckhart1968
- Will Smith1968
- Lucy Lawless1968
- Camille Grammer1968
- Patricia Arquette1968
Born in South Korea
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- Chung Mong-kooSouth Korean businessman
- Han KangSouth Korean writer
- Lee Kun-hee4th and 6th Chairman of the Samsung Group
- Chung Eui-sunSouth Korean businessman
- Hong Ra-heewife of Lee Kun-hee
More charts like Daniel’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Bob HarperAmerican personal trainer
- Juan Pablo GalavisAmerican soccer player, reality show star
- Frank GiffordAmerican football player, television sportscaster
Born in Monkey years
- Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Carrie FisherAmerican actress, writer and screenwriter
- Jacinda ArdernPrime Minister of New Zealand
Also born on August 4
- Barack Obama1961
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex1981
- Antonio Valencia1985
- Billy Bob Thornton1955
- Mark Milligan1985
- Meg Whitman1956
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Graham ChapmanEnglish actor, comedian and writer
- Jim VarneyAmerican actor and comedian
- Richard WidmarkAmerican actor and producer
Other Leo Monkey charts
- Frances Bean CobainAmerican artist and model
- Debra MessingAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Laura LeightonAmerican actress
- Michael UrieAmerican actor (born 1980)
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Yukinari SugawaraJapanese association football player
- Ayase UedaJapanese association football player
- Sontje HansenCuraçaoan footballer
- Senne LammensBelgian association football player (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Colleen McCulloughAustralian author
- Jean-Paul GaultierFrench fashion designer
- Austin ButlerAmerican actor
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Daniel’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299700 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Dae Kim 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 Daniel Dae Kim.
Quick answers about Daniel Dae Kim’s chart
- How old is Daniel Dae Kim?
- Daniel Dae Kim is 58 years old, born August 4, 1968 in Busan, South Korea.
- What zodiac sign is Daniel Dae Kim?
- Daniel Dae Kim is a Leo: born August 4, 1968, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Daniel Dae Kim's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1968 birth.
- What is Daniel Dae Kim's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Daniel Dae Kim's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Daniel Dae Kim's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Daniel Dae Kim's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
