Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953, Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago), aged 73, is a Canadian writer, poet. Brand is best known for Earth Magic and 'Fore Day Morning: Poems. Brand's honours include Member of the Order of Canada, Griffin Poetry Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Dionne Brand’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Dionne
Dionne Brand’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Dionne in the U.S.?
#6913
US rank in 2025
~10,305
Americans share it since 1931
1970
its peak year
In 1953, 36 American girls were registered Dionne — 1,657th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dionne’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dionne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The record
What sets Dionne apart
Jeremy Renner (1971) and Nicolas Cage (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dionne, according to the stars
Core essence
Dionne is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dionne 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, Dionne cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Dionne needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Dionne wants to be loved
Dionne wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Dionne, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Dionne creates
How Dionne makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Dionne creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Dionne 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 8 is the powerhouse. Dionne is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Dionne slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Dionne's birth date. Working below.
Where Dionne sits
Six lines
Dionne’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Dionne Brand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guayaguayare 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 Guayaguayare that night
Computed for 10.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Prima Hyadum stood nearest the zenith over Guayaguayare at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Taurus.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Guayaguayare sits at 10.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 54% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Dionne's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Dionne Brand's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 7, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Dionne Brand was born on January 7, 1953, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Dionne Brand's birth date, January 7, 1953, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Dionne’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dionne Brand's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dionne Brand combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Dionne’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Libra 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
stableSunoppositionUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Dionne’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.7° to 1.0° orb
Dionne’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Dionne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.7° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.8° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 2.9° to 13.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Dionne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 14°16′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 3°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°57′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 14°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°41′ (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 trine Mercury 0.0°
- Eros square Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Ceres square Venus 1.4°
- Ceres square Mars 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Eros square Saturn 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.8°
Dionne’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dionne’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
More people like Dionne
Other writers
- Robert Zemeckis1952
- Herta Müller1953
- Rick Atkinson1952
- Vijay Seshadri1954
- Hilary Mantel1952
- Françoise Bettencourt Meyers1953
Born in Trinidad and Tobago
- V. S. NaipaulTrinidadian-British writer
- Nicki MinajTrinidadian rapper
More charts like Dionne’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Mary BarraChief Executive Officer of General Motors
- Charlie MungerAmerican businessman
- Faith KipyegonKenyan middle- and long-distance runner
Born in Dragon years
- Bianca AndreescuCanadian tennis player
- Alphonso DaviesCanadian soccer player
- Kristóf MilákHungarian swimmer
Also born on January 7
- Jeremy Renner1971
- Nicolas Cage1964
- Lewis Hamilton1985
- Caster Semenya1991
- Michael McGlinchey1987
- Christian Louboutin1964
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Carl BernsteinAmerican journalist (born 1944)
- John Kennedy TooleAmerican novelist
- John UpdikeAmerican novelist, poet
Other Capricorn Dragon charts
- Faye DunawayAmerican actress
- Jane WymanAmerican actress
- Vaughan JonesNew Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Frank B. KelloggAmerican politician
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Lynn Schustermanphilanthropist
- Aung San Suu KyiFormer State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
- Erwin SchrödingerAustrian physicist
- Roger FedererSwiss tennis player
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Ed SwiderskiWinner on Season 5 of the Bachelorette
- Tom SandovalAmerican television personality
- Johnathon SchaechAmerican actor (born 1969)
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Dionne’s cards
Computed from January 7, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dionne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q543625 (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 Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dionne Brand at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dionne Brand.
Quick answers about Dionne Brand’s chart
- How old is Dionne Brand?
- Dionne Brand is 73 years old, born January 7, 1953 in Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago.
- What zodiac sign is Dionne Brand?
- Dionne Brand is a Capricorn: born January 7, 1953, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Dionne Brand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1953 birth.
- What is Dionne Brand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dionne Brand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dionne Brand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dionne Brand's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
