Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis (born Daniel Michael Blake Day; April 29, 1957, London, United Kingdom), aged 69, is a British actor. Notable films include Gandhi, Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood. Day-Lewis's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Knight Bachelor.
Daniel Day-Lewis’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Day-Lewis’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
In 1957, 27,337 American boys and 57 girls were registered Daniel — 16th among boys and 1,399th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Daniel Michael Blake Day, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3).
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
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Daniel apart
The Academy Award for Best Actor came in 1990, when Daniel Day-Lewis was 33.
The schooling ran through Bedales School and Sevenoaks School.
Daniel Day-Lewis was 14 when the work began in 1971.
The family line: born to Jill Balcon and Cecil Day-Lewis, married Rebecca Miller and raised 3 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read English people of Latvian-Jewish descent, Day-Lewis family and Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bedales School, Sevenoaks School and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1990), Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor (2012) and Knight Bachelor (2014)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1971
- Citizenship
- Ireland and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 102
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Daniel is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Daniel is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Daniel creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel 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 1 is the pioneer. Daniel is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Daniel leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Daniel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Day-Lewis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Merak, in Ursa Major, 83.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Daniel Michael Blake Day
- Known as
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Day-Lewis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets 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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Daniel Day-Lewis's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Daniel Day-Lewis was born on April 29, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Daniel Day-Lewis's birth date, April 29, 1957, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Day-Lewis' date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Daniel Day-Lewis combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Aries or 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
stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.9° orb
Daniel’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb
Daniel’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextilePluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
Daniel’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.1° to 6.7° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.4° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°09′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°41′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 1°39′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.5°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.3°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Daniel’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
Daniel’s family here
One relative of Daniel Day-Lewis also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Rooster years
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- Anggun1974
- Uma Thurman1970
- Michelle Pfeiffer1958
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- Danny RimerCanadian businessman
- Joseline HernandezPuerto Rican television personality
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Other Gilded Scholars
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Daniel’s cards
Computed from April 29, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q166389 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Day-Lewis at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Day-Lewis.
Quick answers about Daniel Day-Lewis’s chart
- How old is Daniel Day-Lewis?
- Daniel Day-Lewis is 69 years old, born April 29, 1957 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Daniel Day-Lewis?
- Daniel Day-Lewis is a Taurus: born April 29, 1957, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Daniel Day-Lewis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1957 birth.
- What is Daniel Day-Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Daniel Day-Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Daniel Day-Lewis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Daniel Day-Lewis's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
