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, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
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
Of the names registered in 1962, Daniel came 17th among boys and 1,082nd among girls, carried by 25,543 American boys and 100 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Minahan took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2012, at 50.
The working life starts in 1996, at 34.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Daniel Minahan: LGBTQ television directors, School of Visual Arts alumni and Gay screenwriters.
Winston Churchill (1874) and Ben Stiller (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2012)
- Working from
- 1996
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
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. Working below.
Where Daniel sits
Six lines
Daniel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Minahan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Danbury 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 Danbury that night
Computed for 41.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Danbury was Almach, in Andromeda, 86.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.4°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 Danbury at all: they sit past the −48.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 15% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Capricorn 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
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
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.9° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 10°48′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 27°57′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius or Pisces during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Daniel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Daniel’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.7°
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Also born on November 30
- Winston Churchill1874
- Ben Stiller1965
- Kaley Cuoco1985
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Daniel’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3701680 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Daniel Minahan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Daniel Minahan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
