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Dave Franco

Dave Franco (born June 12, 1985, Palo Alto, United States, 21:18), aged 41, is an American actor. Notable films include Milk, Scrubs and Now You See Me.

Dave Franco’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Dave Franco’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#2456

US rank in 2025

~64,492

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1985, Dave came 723rd, carried by 149 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dave’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5).

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

Dave’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, 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 Dave apart

Training came by way of Palo Alto High School and University of Southern California.

The working life starts in 2006, at 21.

On the family side, Dave Franco was married Alison Brie.

The same date carries Kendra Wilkinson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Palo Alto High School and University of Southern California
Working from
2006
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
52

What the chart says

Dave, according to the stars

Core essence

Dave is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Dave needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Dave runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Dave needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Dave wants to be loved

Dave wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Dave is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Dave creates

How Dave makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Dave creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Dave is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dave 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Dave does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Dave's birth date. Working below.

Where Dave sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Dave

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dave

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Dave

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dave

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

PracticalVisionary
Dave

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dave

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Dave Franco

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

Read from the sky above Palo Alto at 21:18, Dave Franco’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Palo Alto that night

Computed for 37.42°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Palo Alto at the birth hour: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 7.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Palo Alto at all: they sit past the −52.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 24% lit at waning crescent.

What Dave's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Solar Star 太陽 in 午

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Dave Franco's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Wood Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Dave Franco was born on June 12, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Dave Franco's birth date, June 12, 1985, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Dave’s chart

Dave’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.5° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.6° orbSun in Gemini · 22°06′ · house 6☉22°Moon in Aries · 23°11′ · house 4☽23°Mercury in Gemini · 28°57′ · house 6☿28°Venus in Taurus · 6°21′ · house 5♀6°Mars in Cancer · 2°29′ · house 7♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 16°51′ · house 2 · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Scorpio · 22°51′ · house 11 · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Sagittarius · 15°44′ · house 12 · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Capricorn · 2°31′ · house 1 · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Scorpio · 2°09′ · house 11 · retrograde♇℞2°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 4°07′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 4°07′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLib 25°40′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAri 25°40′

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.0° orb

    Dave’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MarstrinePlutoseparating · 0.3° orb

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

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.4° orb

    Dave’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 1.1° orb

  • JupitersextileUranusseparating · 1.1° orb

  • MercurytrinePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 3.5° orb

  • MercuryoppositionNeptuneapplying · 3.6° orb

  • VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb

  • VenussextileMarsseparating · 3.9° orb

  • VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 4.2° orb

  • SuntrineJupiterseparating · 5.2° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 6.0° orb

  • SunoppositionUranusseparating · 6.4° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 9°55′ · House 6

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 1°24′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 13°44′ · House 6

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 21°08′ · House 4

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°12′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.1°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Moon 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.5°
  • Ceres opposition Ascendant 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 2.9°

Dave’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Dave’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Sun, Moon, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Moon quincunx Saturn 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 0.7°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.4°

Dave’s houses

Dave’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 11Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 12Jupitermoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 1emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Cancer, house 7Moonhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Taurus, house 5Venuscreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 6Sun, Mercurywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Aries, house 4Marspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Gemini, house 6emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Taurus, house 5emptycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 11Saturn, Plutofriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 2Uranusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Dave’s family here

2 relatives of Dave Franco also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

Born the same day as Dave

Kendra Wilkinson was born on June 12, 1985 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.4°N, the sky above Palo Alto stops at −52.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Dave’s cards

Computed from June 12, 1985. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dave’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q383930 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dave Franco at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dave Franco.

Quick answers about Dave Franco’s chart

How old is Dave Franco?
Dave Franco is 41 years old, born June 12, 1985 in Palo Alto, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dave Franco?
Dave Franco is a Gemini: born June 12, 1985, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What is Dave Franco's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 12, 1985 birth.
What time was Dave Franco born?
21:18 local time in Palo Alto, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Dave Franco's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 21:18 birth time in Palo Alto, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Dave Franco?
Dave Franco is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Dave Franco's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Dave Franco's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 9°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dave Franco's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 1°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dave Franco's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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