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Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid (born April 9, 1954, Houston, United States), aged 72, is an American actor. Quaid's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Dennis Quaid’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Dennis Quaid’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

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

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

#707

US rank in 2025

~623,692

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Dennis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

White · Crimson · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Dennis apart

Hugh Hefner (1926) and Elle Fanning (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Dennis, according to the stars

Core essence

Dennis leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Dennis is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Dennis is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Dennis needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Dennis wants to be loved

Dennis 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 Dennis is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Dennis creates

How Dennis 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. Dennis 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: Dennis is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dennis 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Dennis has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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

Where Dennis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Dennis

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dennis

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

PrivateExpressive
Dennis

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dennis

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Dennis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dennis

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dennis Quaid

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

Dennis’s birth-night reference starAlgiebawarm orange · LeoAlgieba, in Leo. A warm orange star, 78.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algieba →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 29.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Dennis Quaid's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 9, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Dennis Quaid was born on April 9, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Dennis Quaid's birth date, April 9, 1954, 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 Dennis’s chart

Dennis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Dennis Quaid, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.3° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.3° orbSun in Aries · 19°21′☉19°Moon in Cancer · 13°44′☽13°Mercury in Pisces · 24°29′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 6°29′♀6°Mars in Sagittarius · 28°54′♂28°Jupiter in Gemini · 21°31′♃21°Saturn in Scorpio · 7°18′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Cancer · 19°04′♅19°Neptune in Libra · 24°51′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Leo · 22°41′ · retrograde♇℞22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Dennis’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.5° orb

    Dennis’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto1.1° to 1.3° orb

    Dennis’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Dennis’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.3° to 3.6° orb

    Dennis’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrinePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb

    Dennis’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.2° to 3.4° orb

    Dennis’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb

    Dennis’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.9° to 4.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.7° to 6.1° orb

    Dennis’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.0° to 6.0° orb

    Dennis’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Dennis’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 28°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Dennis is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 3°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Dennis is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 11°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Dennis attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 19°45′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Dennis is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Dennis that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.2°

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°).

Dennis’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Dennis is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Dennis’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo 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 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 excluded without a birth time.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dennis Quaid, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Dennis’s family here

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

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Dennis’s cards

Every card is computed from April 9, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Dennis Quaid, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Dennis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200768, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Dennis Quaid’s chart

How old is Dennis Quaid?
Dennis Quaid is 72 years old, born April 9, 1954 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dennis Quaid?
Dennis Quaid is an Aries: born April 9, 1954, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
What is Dennis Quaid's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1954 birth.
What time was Dennis Quaid born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Dennis Quaid's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 9, 1954 birth date.
What is Dennis Quaid's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 9, 1954 birth date.
Where is Dennis Quaid's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dennis Quaid's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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