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Dru Smith

Dru Smith (born December 30, 1997, Evansville, United States), aged 28, is an American basketball player. Smith has played for Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball and Missouri Tigers men's basketball.

Dru Smith’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Dru Smith’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#2366

US rank in 2025

~4,654

Americans share it since 1943

1999

its peak year

The SSA recorded 82 American boys and 19 girls named Dru in 1997: 1,355th among boys and 5,278th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dru’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on D (4) and closes on U (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.

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

Dru’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

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 1997, 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 Dru apart

Study took Dru Smith to University of Missouri and University of Evansville.

Wikipedia files Dru Smith under Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball players, Basketball players from Evansville, Indiana and Missouri Tigers men's basketball players.

LeBron James (1984) and Tiger Woods (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Missouri and University of Evansville
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
12

What the chart says

Dru, according to the stars

Core essence

Dru is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dru 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, Dru is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Dru needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Dru wants to be loved

Dru wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Dru be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Dru creates

How Dru makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Dru creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Dru is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dru 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Dru goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Dru's birth date. Working below.

Where Dru sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Dru

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dru

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Dru

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dru

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

PracticalVisionary
Dru

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dru

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dru Smith

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

Computed for 37.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Evansville at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Evansville sits at 38.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.

How unusual Dru's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · No Water planets

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Dru Smith's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 30, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Dru Smith was born on December 30, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Dru Smith's birth date, December 30, 1997, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Dru’s chart

Dru’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.7° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.9° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Capricorn · 9°05′☉9°Moon in Capricorn · 22°27′☽22°Mercury in Sagittarius · 17°50′☿17°Venus in Aquarius · 3°38′ · retrograde♀℞3°Mars in Aquarius · 9°47′♂9°Jupiter in Aquarius · 21°59′♃21°Saturn in Aries · 13°43′♄13°Uranus in Aquarius · 7°03′♅7°Neptune in Capricorn · 28°54′♆28°Pluto in Sagittarius · 6°43′♇6°

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

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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

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb

    Dru’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb

    Dru’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb

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

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.6° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn3.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter4.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 15°24′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 12°18′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 15°11′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 14°59′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 1°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.6°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.9°

Dru’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Dru’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Venus, Mars, Jupiter, 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.8°

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Dru’s cards

Computed from December 30, 1997. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dru’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q100924114 (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 Gamecock Central, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dru Smith at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dru Smith.

Quick answers about Dru Smith’s chart

How old is Dru Smith?
Dru Smith is 28 years old, born December 30, 1997 in Evansville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dru Smith?
Dru Smith is a Capricorn: born December 30, 1997, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Dru Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 30, 1997 birth.
How tall is Dru Smith?
Dru Smith is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Dru Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Dru Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dru Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dru Smith's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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