Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin (born February 6, 1947, Los Angeles, United States), aged 79, is an American author and speaker (born 1947). Yergin is best known for The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy and The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. Yergin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Marshall Scholarship.
Daniel Yergin’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Daniel Yergin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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
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
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
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 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.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Daniel you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Daniel is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Daniel goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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Daniel Yergin in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Daniel Yergin's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1947, 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.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Daniel Yergin was born on February 6, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Daniel Yergin's birth date, February 6, 1947, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Yergin's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Daniel Yergin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Daniel Yergin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Daniel’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.6° to 1.4° orb
Daniel’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.3° to 3.0° orb
Daniel’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Daniel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.8° orb
Daniel’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.5° to 3.2° orb
Daniel’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
Daniel’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.6° orb
Daniel’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb
Daniel’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb
Daniel’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Daniel carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 5°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Daniel is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosScorpio 27°13′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Daniel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAries 25°54′ (moves 0.23° 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 LilithCapricorn 0°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Daniel is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 conjunction Venus 0.2°
- Eros square Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron square Mars 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.9°
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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Daniel Yergin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Daniel’s cards
Every card is computed from February 6, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Daniel Yergin, 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 Q714148, 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 World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Yergin at Wikipedia, danielyergin.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.
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Quick answers about Daniel Yergin’s chart
- How old is Daniel Yergin?
- Daniel Yergin is 79 years old, born February 6, 1947 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Daniel Yergin?
- Daniel Yergin is an Aquarius: born February 6, 1947, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Daniel Yergin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1947 birth.
- What time was Daniel Yergin 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 Yergin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the February 6, 1947 birth date.
- What is Daniel Yergin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 6, 1947 birth date.
- Where is Daniel Yergin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Daniel Yergin's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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