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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, 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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever 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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Daniel Kraus was born on June 7, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Daniel Kraus's birth date, June 7, 1975, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Kraus' date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Daniel Kraus combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Daniel Kraus, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° 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.
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
Daniel’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.6° to 3.3° orb
Daniel’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileMars3.3° to 3.5° orb
Daniel’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.4° orb
Daniel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareSaturn4.5° to 5.1° orb
Daniel’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.8° to 5.3° orb
Daniel’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.5° orb
Daniel’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionPluto6.0° to 6.8° orb
Daniel’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 26°54′ (moves 0.04° 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.
⚳ CeresTaurus 13°10′ (moves 0.38° 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.
♡ ErosVirgo 29°21′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Daniel is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Daniel needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Daniel is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.7°
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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Daniel is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 Venus 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Kraus, 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 June 7, 1975, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Daniel Kraus, 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 Q21062522, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit.
- 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 time was Daniel Kraus 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 Kraus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 7, 1975 birth date.
- What is Daniel Kraus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 7, 1975 birth date.
- 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.
