Daniel Minahan
Daniel Minahan (born November 30, 1962, Danbury, United States), aged 63, is an American director, producer, and writer (born 1962). Minahan's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
Daniel Minahan’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Daniel Minahan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Rose-gold · Soft pink
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 friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Daniel is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Daniel is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Daniel needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Daniel creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Daniel is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Daniel fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Daniel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Daniel sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Daniel Minahan's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Daniel Minahan was born on November 30, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Daniel Minahan's birth date, November 30, 1962, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Minahan's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Daniel Minahan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Daniel Minahan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Capricorn 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.
stableVenussextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Daniel’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.4° to 1.9° orb
Daniel’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Daniel’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
Daniel’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
Daniel’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
Daniel’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 3.2° orb
Daniel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
Daniel’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 4.8° orb
Daniel’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquarePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
Daniel’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.9° to 6.5° orb
Daniel’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Daniel absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 10°48′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Daniel caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosLibra 27°57′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Daniel is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaAquarius or Pisces during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Daniel is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Daniel that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres square Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Sun 1.8°
- Ceres square Sun 2.8°
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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Daniel is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Minahan, 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 November 30, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Daniel Minahan, 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 Q3701680, 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 John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Minahan at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
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 Minahan.
Quick answers about Daniel Minahan’s chart
- How old is Daniel Minahan?
- Daniel Minahan is 63 years old, born November 30, 1962 in Danbury, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Daniel Minahan?
- Daniel Minahan is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1962, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
- What is Daniel Minahan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1962 birth.
- What time was Daniel Minahan 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 Minahan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the November 30, 1962 birth date.
- What is Daniel Minahan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 30, 1962 birth date.
- Where is Daniel Minahan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Daniel Minahan's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
