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Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito (born Daniel Michael DeVito Jr.; November 17, 1944, Neptune Township, United States), aged 81, is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. Notable films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Men in Black and Batman Returns. DeVito's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, New Jersey Hall of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Danny DeVito’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Danny DeVito’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Danny in the U.S.?

#628

US rank in 2025

~288,341

Americans share it since 1900

1954

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1944, Danny came 76th among boys and 2,651st among girls, carried by 3,511 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Danny’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Daniel Michael DeVito Jr., not the name they published under.

1

Expression · starting things

5

Soul Urge · freedom

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Danny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

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 1944, 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 Danny apart

Danny DeVito took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1981, at 37.

The classrooms behind this chart: Oratory Preparatory School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

The working life starts in 1969, at 25.

The family line: married Rhea Perlman and raised 3 children.

The same date carries Lorne Michaels. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Oratory Preparatory School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1981) and New Jersey Hall of Fame (2010)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Non-European Film and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award
Working from
1969
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
88

What the chart says

Danny, according to the stars

Core essence

Danny does not do surface. The core of Danny is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Danny is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Danny is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Danny needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Danny wants to be loved

Danny 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 Danny you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Danny creates

How Danny makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Danny creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Danny 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Danny is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Danny leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Danny 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 Danny's birth date. Working below.

Where Danny sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Danny

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Danny

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

PrivateExpressive
Danny

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Danny

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Danny

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Danny

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Danny DeVito

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neptune Township 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 Neptune Township that night

Computed for 40.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Neptune Township was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 78.2° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr.
Known as
Danny DeVito
Born in
Neptune Township, United States

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Danny DeVito: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Danny's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Danny DeVito's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Danny DeVito was born on November 17, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Danny DeVito's birth date, November 17, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Danny’s chart

Danny’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 25°12′☉25°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°19′☽15°Mercury in Sagittarius · 10°46′☿10°Venus in Capricorn · 1°39′♀1°Mars in Scorpio · 24°19′♂24°Jupiter in Virgo · 23°01′♃23°Saturn in Cancer · 10°12′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Gemini · 11°46′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Libra · 5°43′♆5°Pluto in Leo · 10°16′ · retrograde♇℞10°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Danny’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.2° to 1.8° orb

    Danny’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb

    Danny’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.0° to 1.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Danny’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo or Libra during this date

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 9°35′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 25°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 13°37′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Saturn 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.9°

Danny’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Danny’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.6°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

Born the same day as Danny

Lorne Michaels was born on November 17, 1944 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Neptune Township, at 40.2°N, nothing below −49.8° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Danny’s cards

Computed from November 17, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Danny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26806 (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 Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Danny DeVito at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Danny DeVito.

Quick answers about Danny DeVito’s chart

How old is Danny DeVito?
Danny DeVito is 81 years old, born November 17, 1944 in Neptune Township, United States.
What zodiac sign is Danny DeVito?
Danny DeVito is a Scorpio: born November 17, 1944, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Danny DeVito's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1944 birth.
How tall is Danny DeVito?
Danny DeVito is 1.47 m (4 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Danny DeVito's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Danny DeVito's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo or Libra, changing sign during the birth date. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Danny DeVito's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Danny DeVito's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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