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Daniel Moder

Daniel Moder (born January 31, 1969, Los Angeles, United States), aged 57, is an American cinematographer.

Daniel Moder’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Daniel Moder’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Daniel apart

Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Daniel, according to the stars

Core essence

Daniel is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Daniel is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Daniel is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Daniel needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Daniel wants to be loved

Daniel wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Daniel, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Daniel creates

How Daniel makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Daniel creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Daniel is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Daniel is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Daniel runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Daniel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Daniel sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Daniel

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Daniel

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Daniel

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

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Daniel Moder at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Daniel Moder's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Daniel Moder was born on January 31, 1969, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Daniel Moder's birth date, January 31, 1969, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Daniel’s chart

Daniel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Daniel Moder, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°47′☉11°Moon in Cancer · 22°41′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 6°15′ · retrograde☿℞6°Venus in Pisces · 28°40′♀28°Mars in Scorpio · 18°02′♂18°Jupiter in Libra · 5°51′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Aries · 20°13′♄20°Uranus in Libra · 3°45′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Scorpio · 28°29′♆28°Pluto in Virgo · 24°47′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Daniel’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Daniel’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.9° to 3.1° orb

    Daniel’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° orb

    Daniel’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.4° orb

    Daniel’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

    Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.4° to 6.6° orb

    Daniel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb

    Daniel’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.4° to 6.5° orb

    Daniel’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.5° orb

    Daniel’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter6.7° to 7.7° orb

    Daniel’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 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 0°04′ (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.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Daniel caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 21°28′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Daniel is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 9°02′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Daniel feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Daniel that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Venus 1.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 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. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Daniel is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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.

  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.7°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 2.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Moder, 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 January 31, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Daniel Moder, 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 Q21402343, 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.

The same Daniel Moder at Wikipedia, moderdp.com, 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 Moder.

Quick answers about Daniel Moder’s chart

How old is Daniel Moder?
Daniel Moder is 57 years old, born January 31, 1969 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Daniel Moder?
Daniel Moder is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1969, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
What is Daniel Moder's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1969 birth.
What time was Daniel Moder 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 Moder's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 31, 1969 birth date.
What is Daniel Moder's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 31, 1969 birth date.
Where is Daniel Moder's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Daniel Moder's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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