How old is Darren Criss?

Darren Criss is 39 years old, born February 5, 1987 in San Francisco, United States.

What zodiac sign is Darren Criss?

Darren Criss is an Aquarius: born February 5, 1987, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit.

What is Darren Criss's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1987 birth.

What time was Darren Criss born?

12:37 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What is Darren Criss's rising sign?

Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 12:37 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What is Darren Criss's Life Path number?

Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 5, 1987 birth date.

What is Darren Criss's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Gemini at 15°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 5, 1987 birth time.

Where is Darren Criss's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Darren Criss's dominant planet?

Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Darren Criss

Darren Criss (born February 5, 1987, San Francisco, United States, 12:37), aged 39, is an American actor and singer. Criss's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Darren Criss’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Darren Criss’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#1135

US rank in 2025

~104,506

Americans share it since 1880

1965

its peak year

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Darren’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

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

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What sets Darren apart

The same date carries Henry Golding. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

What the chart says

Darren, according to the stars

Core essence

Darren is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Darren 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, Darren is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Darren needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Darren wants to be loved

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

How Darren creates

How Darren 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. Darren 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: Darren is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Darren is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Darren gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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

Where Darren sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Darren

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Darren

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Darren

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Darren

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

PracticalVisionary

Darren

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Darren

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

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Darren’s birth-sky starAljanahwarm orange · CygnusAljanah, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 80.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Aljanah →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 11.3° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 12:37, the birth time on Darren Criss’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Darren Criss's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. 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 Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Darren Criss was born on February 5, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Darren Criss's birth date, February 5, 1987, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Darren’s chart

Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Darren Criss' timed chart: Mercury in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Uranus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Darren Criss' timed chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
Darren Criss combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.

Darren’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantGemini

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

MarstrineSaturnseparating · 0.9° orb
Darren’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 1.2° orb
Darren’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunsquareMoonseparating · 2.0° orb
Darren’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 2.0° orb
Darren’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 2.4° orb
Darren’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.0° orb
Darren’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileMarsapplying · 3.3° orb
Darren’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 4.2° orb
Darren’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.3° orb
Darren’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 5.4° orb
Darren’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarstrineUranusapplying · 5.7° orb
Darren’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 6.1° orb
Darren’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.5° orb
Darren’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 6.5° orb
Darren’s affections grind against their growth.
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 6.6° orb
Darren’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire3 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air1 of 10
Water3 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal3 of 10
Fixed3 of 10
Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Darren’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.

⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 15°58′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Darren turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°39′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Darren is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAries 4°47′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Darren is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 18°51′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Darren needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 8°21′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Darren guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.1°
Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.2°
Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
Hygiea sextile Mars 0.9°
Ceres trine Mars 1.1°
Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.4°
Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.6°
Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
Eros square Neptune 2.2°
Hygiea trine Sun 2.3°
Chiron opposition Saturn 2.9°

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°).

Darren’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Darren 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 Darren’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

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 quincunx Saturn 0.4°
Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
Moon biquintile Uranus 1.0°
Moon semi-sextile Mars 1.3°

Darren’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Gemini	Mercury in Pisces, house 10	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Cancer	Moon in Taurus, house 12	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Leo	Sun in Aquarius, house 9	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Virgo	Mercury in Pisces, house 10	empty	home, family, roots
5	Libra	Venus in Capricorn, house 8	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Scorpio	Pluto in Scorpio, house 6	Pluto	work, habits, health
7	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Pisces, house 10	Saturn, Uranus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Capricorn	Saturn in Sagittarius, house 7	Venus, Neptune	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Aquarius	Uranus in Sagittarius, house 7	Sun	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Pisces	Neptune in Capricorn, house 8	Mercury, Jupiter	career, reputation, public life
11	Aries	Mars in Aries, house 11	Mars	friends, community, the future
12	Taurus	Venus in Capricorn, house 8	Moon	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as Darren

Henry Golding was born on February 5, 1987 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Darren’s cards

Every card is computed from February 5, 1987, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Darren’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295502, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Laviru Koruwakankanamge, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Darren Criss at Wikipedia, darrencriss.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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 Darren Criss’s chart

How old is Darren Criss?: Darren Criss is 39 years old, born February 5, 1987 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Darren Criss?: Darren Criss is an Aquarius: born February 5, 1987, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit.
What is Darren Criss's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1987 birth.
What time was Darren Criss born?: 12:37 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Darren Criss's rising sign?: Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 12:37 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Darren Criss's Life Path number?: Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 5, 1987 birth date.
What is Darren Criss's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Gemini at 15°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 5, 1987 birth time.
Where is Darren Criss's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Darren Criss's dominant planet?: Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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How Darren wants to be loved

How Darren creates

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Triggers

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Aquarius Sun

Fire Rabbit

Life Path 5

What stands out in Darren’s chart

Darren’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Darren’s dominant planets

Configurations in Darren’s chart

Minor aspects

Darren’s houses

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