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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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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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

Daniel ranked 22nd among boys and 1,582nd among girls in 1947, the year of this birth, with 15,189 American boys and 36 girls on the register.

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

11

Soul Urge · insight

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

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 record

What sets Daniel apart

Ronald Reagan (1911) and Bob Marley (1945) 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.

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. Working below.

Where Daniel sits

Six lines

Daniel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Daniel’s birth-night reference starMebsutayellow · GeminiMebsuta, in Gemini. A yellow star, 79.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mebsuta →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Mebsuta of Gemini, within 10.7° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.

The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.

How unusual Daniel's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Daniel Yergin in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Original, 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.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Daniel Yergin was born on February 6, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Daniel Yergin's birth date, February 6, 1947, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Daniel’s chart

Daniel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.7° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 5.1° orbSun in Aquarius · 17°12′☉17°Moon in Virgo · 3°12′☽3°Mercury in Aquarius · 27°49′☿27°Venus in Capricorn · 0°38′♀0°Mars in Aquarius · 9°39′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 25°39′♃25°Saturn in Leo · 4°30′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Gemini · 17°53′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Libra · 10°38′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Leo · 12°05′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto2.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.5° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 8°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 5°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 27°13′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 25°54′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 0°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Daniel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Daniel’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.6°

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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

Computed from February 6, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q714148 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Daniel Yergin.

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.
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 is Daniel Yergin's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Daniel Yergin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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