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Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus (born June 7, 1975, Midland, United States), aged 51, is an American novelist, writer, editor and filmmaker. Kraus's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel.

Daniel Kraus’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Daniel Kraus’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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

Daniel ranked 11th among boys and 823rd among girls in 1975, the year of this birth, with 23,814 American boys and 165 girls on the register.

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

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

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 1975, 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

Daniel Kraus took the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel in 2022, at 47.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Iowa shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Daniel Kraus under People from Midland, Michigan, Novelists from Michigan and American writers of young adult novels.

Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Iowa
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2026) and Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel (2022)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and French
Wikipedia editions
8

What the chart says

Daniel, according to the stars

Core essence

Daniel is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Daniel needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Daniel 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 Daniel needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Daniel builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Daniel is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Daniel is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Daniel gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Daniel

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Daniel

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Daniel

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Daniel

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Daniel

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Daniel

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Midland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Daniel’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 20° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Midland that night

Computed for 43.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Midland at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 43.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Midland at all: they sit past the −46.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -2° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Midland, United States
Lives in
Chicago · Fairfield

Wikidata records Chicago and Fairfield as Daniel Kraus's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Kraus: 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

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth 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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Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Daniel Kraus's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Daniel Kraus was born on June 7, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Daniel Kraus's birth date, June 7, 1975, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Daniel’s chart

Daniel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.5° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.7° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Gemini · 16°17′☉16°Moon in Taurus · 20°22′☽20°Mercury in Gemini · 20°56′ · retrograde☿℞20°Venus in Leo · 1°15′♀1°Mars in Aries · 12°55′♂12°Jupiter in Aries · 17°58′♃17°Saturn in Cancer · 17°44′♄17°Uranus in Libra · 28°43′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 10°15′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Libra · 6°30′ · retrograde♇℞6°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Daniel’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.3° to 2.1° orb

    Daniel’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussquareUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Daniel’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.3° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.6° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto6.0° to 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°10′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 29°21′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 6°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.7°

Daniel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars8 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Daniel’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.5°

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Daniel’s cards

Computed from June 7, 1975. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21062522 (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 Nightscream, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Daniel Kraus at Wikipedia, danielkraus.com, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Daniel Kraus.

Quick answers about Daniel Kraus’s chart

How old is Daniel Kraus?
Daniel Kraus is 51 years old, born June 7, 1975 in Midland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Daniel Kraus?
Daniel Kraus is a Gemini: born June 7, 1975, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Daniel Kraus's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1975 birth.
What is Daniel Kraus's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Daniel Kraus's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Daniel Kraus's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Daniel Kraus's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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