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Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Hounsou (born April 24, 1964, Cotonou, Benin), aged 62, is a Beninese actor. Notable films include Gladiator, Guardians of the Galaxy and Blood Diamond. Hounsou's honours include Great Immigrants Award.

Djimon Hounsou’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Djimon Hounsou’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~266

Americans share it since 1997

1998

its peak year

US records hold Djimon from 1997 onward, though not for 1964 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1998 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Djimon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Djimon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

White · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets Djimon apart

The Great Immigrants Award came in 2010, when Djimon Hounsou was 46.

Djimon Hounsou was 22 when the work began in 1986.

Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Great Immigrants Award (2010)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1986
Wikipedia editions
58

What the chart says

Djimon, according to the stars

Core essence

Djimon is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Djimon is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Djimon 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 Djimon 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 Djimon wants to be loved

Djimon wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Djimon like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Djimon creates

How Djimon makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Djimon 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: Djimon 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Djimon 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Djimon gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Djimon's birth date. Working below.

Where Djimon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Djimon

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Djimon

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

PrivateExpressive
Djimon

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Djimon

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

PracticalVisionary
Djimon

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Djimon

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Djimon Hounsou

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

Computed for 6.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Regulus stood nearest the zenith over Cotonou at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Leo.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

Cotonou sits at 6.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon was at full moon, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.

How unusual Djimon's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Taurus

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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Djimon Hounsou in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Djimon Hounsou's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Djimon Hounsou was born on April 24, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Djimon Hounsou's birth date, April 24, 1964, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Djimon’s chart

Djimon’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.1° orbSun in Taurus · 4°17′☉4°Moon in Libra · 8°20′☽8°Mercury in Taurus · 9°03′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Gemini · 19°10′♀19°Mars in Aries · 20°02′♂20°Jupiter in Taurus · 2°55′♃2°Saturn in Pisces · 2°56′♄2°Uranus in Virgo · 6°05′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Scorpio · 16°48′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Virgo · 11°48′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Djimon’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Djimon’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Djimon’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.0° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.3° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.5° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.0° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.7° to 6.5° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 17°21′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 6°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 20°58′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°20′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.6°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.9°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.7°

Djimon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Djimon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.2°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.4°

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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works

Djimon’s cards

Computed from April 24, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Djimon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298682 (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 Djimon_hounsou_kimora_lee_simmons_push_premiere.jpg: Anthony Citrano derivative work: B3t (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Djimon Hounsou at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Djimon Hounsou.

Quick answers about Djimon Hounsou’s chart

How old is Djimon Hounsou?
Djimon Hounsou is 62 years old, born April 24, 1964 in Cotonou, Benin.
What zodiac sign is Djimon Hounsou?
Djimon Hounsou is a Taurus: born April 24, 1964, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Djimon Hounsou's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1964 birth.
What is Djimon Hounsou's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Djimon Hounsou's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Djimon Hounsou's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Djimon Hounsou's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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