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Derik Queen

Derik Queen (born December 27, 2004, Baltimore, United States), aged 21, is an American basketball player (born 2004). Queen has played for New Orleans Pelicans and Maryland Terrapins men's basketball.

Derik Queen’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Derik Queen’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#3973

US rank in 2025

~5,508

Americans share it since 1952

1987

its peak year

Derik ranked 1,569th in 2004, the year of this birth, with 84 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Derik’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on D (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Derik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Ivory · Forest

The record

What sets Derik apart

Louis Pasteur (1822) and Salman Khan (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Derik, according to the stars

Core essence

Derik is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Derik is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Derik 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 Derik needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Derik wants to be loved

Derik wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Derik and watch them fall for you again.

How Derik creates

How Derik makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Derik creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Derik is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Derik is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Derik 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 Derik's birth date. Working below.

Where Derik sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Derik

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Derik

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Derik

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Derik

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

PracticalVisionary
Derik

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Derik

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Derik Queen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night

Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baltimore on any night.

The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.

How unusual Derik's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Derik Queen's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 27, 2004, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Derik Queen was born on December 27, 2004, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Derik Queen's birth date, December 27, 2004, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Derik’s chart

Derik’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 23° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.2° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 6°18′☉6°Moon in Cancer · 18°01′☽18°Mercury in Sagittarius · 14°06′☿14°Venus in Sagittarius · 13°44′♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 1°24′♂1°Jupiter in Libra · 16°51′♃16°Saturn in Cancer · 25°16′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Pisces · 3°45′♅3°Neptune in Aquarius · 13°43′♆13°Pluto in Sagittarius · 22°34′♇22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Derik’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Derik’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.2° to 0.6° orb

    Derik’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.0° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.1° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.4° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.8° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.3° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 6.3° to 17.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 25°11′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 6°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 28°32′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 7°38′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 2.9°

Derik’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Derik’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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.

  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite

Derik’s cards

Computed from December 27, 2004. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Derik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q124655262 (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.

Portrait by Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Derik Queen.

Quick answers about Derik Queen’s chart

How old is Derik Queen?
Derik Queen is 21 years old, born December 27, 2004 in Baltimore, United States.
What zodiac sign is Derik Queen?
Derik Queen is a Capricorn: born December 27, 2004, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Derik Queen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 27, 2004 birth.
How tall is Derik Queen?
Derik Queen is 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Derik Queen's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Derik Queen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Derik Queen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Derik Queen's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 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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