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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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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
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
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Daniel sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Daniel Day-Lewis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Aries or 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.
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
Daniel’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.6° to 3.9° orb
Daniel’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.0° orb
Daniel’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
Daniel’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.7° orb
Daniel’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.1° to 6.7° orb
Daniel’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus5.4° to 6.3° orb
Daniel’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°09′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Daniel making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°41′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Daniel is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosGemini 1°39′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Daniel is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Daniel needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Daniel at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Daniel is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 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 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 quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Day-Lewis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Daniel’s family here
One relative of Daniel Day-Lewis also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Daniel’s cards
Every card is computed from April 29, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Daniel Day-Lewis, 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 Q166389, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- 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 time was Daniel Day-Lewis 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 Day-Lewis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 29, 1957 birth date.
- What is Daniel Day-Lewis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 29, 1957 birth date.
- 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.
