Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell (born January 27, 1975, Los Angeles, United States), aged 51, is an American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator. Bell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Darrin Bell’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Darrin
Darrin Bell’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Darrin in the U.S.?
#3393
US rank in 2025
~29,747
Americans share it since 1947
1965
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1975, Darrin came 309th among boys and 9,398th among girls, carried by 587 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Darrin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Darrin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, 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 Darrin apart
Darrin Bell took the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2015, at 40.
Training came by way of University of California, Berkeley.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Darrin Bell: African-American comics artists, Jewish American comics artists and American satirical comics writers.
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (2019) and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2015)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Darrin, according to the stars
Core essence
Darrin is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Darrin 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, Darrin needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Darrin needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Darrin wants to be loved
Darrin wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Darrin be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Darrin creates
How Darrin makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Darrin creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Darrin is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Darrin 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Darrin does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Darrin's birth date. Working below.
Where Darrin sits
Six lines
Darrin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Darrin Bell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Los Angeles, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Darrin Bell's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Darrin Bell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Darrin's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aquarius
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Darrin Bell's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Darrin Bell was born on January 27, 1975, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Darrin Bell's birth date, January 27, 1975, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Darrin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Darrin Bell's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Darrin Bell combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Darrin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrinePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb
Darrin’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileUranus1.6° to 2.4° orb
Darrin’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.6° orb
Darrin’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.8° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Darrin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 20°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 22°23′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 23°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 29°21′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 29°04′ (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 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.4°
Darrin’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Darrin’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
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- Rosamund Pike1979
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Darrin’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1975. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Darrin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5225277 (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.
The same Darrin Bell at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Darrin Bell.
Quick answers about Darrin Bell’s chart
- How old is Darrin Bell?
- Darrin Bell is 51 years old, born January 27, 1975 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Darrin Bell?
- Darrin Bell is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1975, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Darrin Bell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1975 birth.
- What is Darrin Bell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Darrin Bell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Darrin Bell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Darrin Bell's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
