Daniel Massey
Daniel Massey (born October 10, 1933, Westminster, United Kingdom; died 1998), was an English actor and performer. Massey's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival.
Daniel Massey’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Massey’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
Of the names registered in 1933, Daniel came 42nd among boys and 1,983rd among girls, carried by 4,310 American boys and 16 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
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
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Massey took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture in 1968, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: King's College and Eton College.
The working life starts in 1942, at 9.
Cause of death is recorded as Hodgkin lymphoma; the grave is at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Daniel Massey was born to Adrianne Allen and Raymond Massey and married Penelope Wilton and Adrienne Corri.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Daniel Massey: Burials at Putney Vale Cemetery, Massey family and Deaths from Hodgkin lymphoma.
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- King's College and Eton College
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1968) and Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival (1981)
- Nominated for
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival
- Working from
- 1942
- Cause of death
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Buried at
- Putney Vale Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Daniel is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Daniel even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Daniel creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Daniel has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Massey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Westminster 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 Westminster that night
Computed for 51.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Westminster was Alderamin, in Cepheus, 76.6° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
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 Westminster at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon up and 58% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Westminster, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Massey: 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
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Daniel Massey's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Daniel Massey was born on October 10, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Daniel Massey's birth date, October 10, 1933, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Massey's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Daniel Massey combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableUranussquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Daniel’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.3° to 1.7° orb
Daniel’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.1° to 3.3° orb
Daniel’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.3° to 4.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.9° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.7° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineSaturnorb from 6.5° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 14°40′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°43′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 10°06′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 28°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.9°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.9°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Pluto
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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus quintile Saturn 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
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Born in United Kingdom
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Born in Rooster years
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- Tom SkerrittAmerican actor
Also born on October 10
- Gavin Newsom1967
- Marina Diamandis1985
- Brett Favre1969
- Mario Lopez1973
- Bradley Whitford1959
- Chris Penn1965
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Maliek CollinsAmerican football defensive tackle
- D'Angelo RossAmerican football player
- Myles BryantAmerican football defensive back
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- Grover StewartAmerican football player (born 1993)
- George KittleAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Asa NewellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Liam McNeeleyAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Thomas A. SteitzAmerican biochemist
- Stanford MooreAmerican biochemist
- John PolanyiHungarian-Canadian chemist
- Edward Lawrie TatumUS genetics scientist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Chuba HubbardCanadian-born American football player (born 1999)
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Daniel’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1161698 (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.
The same Daniel Massey 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 Massey.
Quick answers about Daniel Massey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Daniel Massey?
- Daniel Massey was a Libra: born October 10, 1933, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Daniel Massey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1933 birth.
- What was Daniel Massey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Daniel Massey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Daniel Massey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Daniel Massey's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
