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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Daniel 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 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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Daniel Dae Kim, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Sagittarius 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.
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
Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.0° orb
Daniel’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.1° to 3.7° orb
Daniel’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.3° orb
Daniel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.5° orb
Daniel’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.5° orb
Daniel’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Aries 3°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Daniel may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°59′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Daniel is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosScorpio 10°55′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Daniel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°10′ (moves 0.01° 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 Daniel feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Daniel that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Daniel’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Daniel is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Daniel’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Dae Kim, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Daniel’s cards
Every card is computed from August 4, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Daniel Dae Kim, 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
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299700, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Daniel Dae Kim 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 Daniel Dae Kim's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 4, 1968 birth date.
- What is Daniel Dae Kim's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 4, 1968 birth date.
- 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.
