Dean Parisot
Dean Parisot (born July 6, 1952, Wilton, United States), aged 74, is an American film and television director. Parisot's honours include Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Dean Parisot’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Dean
Dean Parisot’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Dean in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~195,844
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
Dean ranked 103rd among boys and 2,036th among girls in 1952, the year of this birth, with 3,155 American boys and 25 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dean’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
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 1952, 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 Dean apart
Dean Parisot took the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1989, at 37.
The classrooms behind this chart: New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
The family line: born to Aldo Parisot and married Sally Menke.
Wikipedia's editors put Dean Parisot under Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners, People from Wilton, Connecticut and Film producers from Connecticut.
The same date carries Hilary Mantel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (2000) and Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (1989)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
Dean, according to the stars
Core essence
Dean feels the room before entering it. The core of Dean is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Dean, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Dean wants to be loved
Dean wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Dean gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Dean creates
How Dean makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Dean 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: Dean is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dean is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dean 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 Dean's birth date. Working below.
Where Dean sits
Six lines
Dean’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Dean Parisot
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilton 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 Wilton that night
Computed for 41.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wilton was Izar, in Boötes, 75.3° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.2°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 −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Dean's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →Dean Parisot at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Dean Parisot's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Dean Parisot was born on July 6, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Dean Parisot's birth date, July 6, 1952, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Dean’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dean Parisot's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dean Parisot combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Dean’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Dean’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Dean’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Dean’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune0.6° to 1.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Dean’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°08′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 23°60′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°31′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
Dean’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus
Configurations in Dean’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.0°
Born the same day as Dean
Hilary Mantel was born on July 6, 1952 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.2°N, the sky above Wilton stops at −48.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Cancer Dragon charts
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Other Tidal Diplomats
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- Joan CusackAmerican actress
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Dean’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1181116 (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 Dean Parisot 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 Dean Parisot.
Quick answers about Dean Parisot’s chart
- How old is Dean Parisot?
- Dean Parisot is 74 years old, born July 6, 1952 in Wilton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dean Parisot?
- Dean Parisot is a Cancer: born July 6, 1952, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Dean Parisot's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1952 birth.
- What is Dean Parisot's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dean Parisot's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dean Parisot's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dean Parisot's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
