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Darius Acuff Jr.

Darius Acuff Jr. (born November 16, 2006, Detroit, United States), aged 19, is an American basketball player (born 2006). Acuff has played for Sacramento Kings.

Darius Acuff Jr.’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Darius Acuff Jr.’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#788

US rank in 2025

~54,278

Americans share it since 1880

1994

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,244 American boys named Darius in 2006: 278th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Darius’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Darius’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

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 2006, 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 Darius apart

The family line: born to Darius Acuff.

Wikipedia files Darius Acuff Jr. under Basketball players from Detroit, Cass Technical High School alumni and Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball players.

José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Darius, according to the stars

Core essence

Darius does not do surface. The core of Darius 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 Darius is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Darius cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Darius needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Darius wants to be loved

Darius 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 Darius even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Darius creates

How Darius makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Darius creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Darius is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Darius is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

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

Where Darius sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Darius

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Darius

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

PrivateExpressive
Darius

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Darius

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

PracticalVisionary
Darius

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Darius

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 Darius Acuff Jr.

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Mirach, in Andromeda, 76.9° up.

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

Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 13% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Darius's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Earth planets · 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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Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Darius Acuff Jr.'s Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 2006, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Darius Acuff Jr. was born on November 16, 2006, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Darius Acuff Jr.'s birth date, November 16, 2006, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Darius’s chart

Darius’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.1° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 24°12′☉24°Moon in Libra · 7°15′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 9°13′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Scorpio · 29°13′♀29°Mars in Scorpio · 16°23′♂16°Jupiter in Scorpio · 28°20′♃28°Saturn in Leo · 24°43′♄24°Uranus in Pisces · 10°49′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Aquarius · 17°08′♆17°Pluto in Sagittarius · 25°24′♇25°

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Darius’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Darius’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Darius’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.4° to 1.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus5.2° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.7° to 7.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.6° to 8.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 5°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 18°04′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 13°05′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 28°32′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.9°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.7°

Darius’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Darius’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°

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Darius’s cards

Computed from November 16, 2006. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Darius’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130749172 (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.

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

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Quick answers about Darius Acuff Jr.’s chart

How old is Darius Acuff Jr.?
Darius Acuff Jr. is 19 years old, born November 16, 2006 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Darius Acuff Jr.?
Darius Acuff Jr. is a Scorpio: born November 16, 2006, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Darius Acuff Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 2006 birth.
How tall is Darius Acuff Jr.?
Darius Acuff Jr. is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Darius Acuff Jr.'s Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Darius Acuff Jr.'s Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Darius Acuff Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Darius Acuff Jr.'s dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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