Duncan Jones
Duncan Jones (born May 30, 1971, Bromley, United Kingdom), aged 55, is a British film director. Jones's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
Duncan Jones’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Duncan
Duncan Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Duncan in the U.S.?
#1124
US rank in 2025
~21,230
Americans share it since 1880
1997
its peak year
Duncan ranked 829th in 1971, the year of this birth, with 95 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Duncan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (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
Duncan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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 Duncan apart
Duncan Jones took the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer in 2010, at 39.
Gordonstoun and College of Wooster shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2002, at 31.
On the family side, Duncan Jones was born to Angela Bowie and David Bowie.
Wikipedia's editors put Duncan Jones under Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA Award winners, British fantasy film directors and People from Bromley.
The same date carries Idina Menzel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Gordonstoun, College of Wooster and London Film School
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer (2010) and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2010)
- Working from
- 2002
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Duncan, according to the stars
Core essence
Duncan is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Duncan needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Duncan needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Duncan needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Duncan wants to be loved
Duncan 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 Duncan is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Duncan creates
How Duncan 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. Duncan 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: Duncan is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Duncan 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Duncan 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 Duncan's birth date. Working below.
Where Duncan sits
Six lines
Duncan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Duncan Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bromley Hospital 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 Bromley Hospital that night
Computed for 51.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alioth stood nearest the zenith over Bromley Hospital at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bromley Hospital at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -0° below the horizon, Moon up and 39% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Duncan's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Duncan Jones's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 30, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Duncan Jones was born on May 30, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Duncan Jones's birth date, May 30, 1971, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Duncan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Duncan Jones' date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Duncan Jones combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Duncan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Leo 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
stableSaturntrinePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Duncan’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
Duncan’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Duncan’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars1.6° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.1° to 2.4° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.7° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Duncan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 12°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 14°14′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 14°46′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°04′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo or Libra during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Eros trine Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 3.0°
Duncan’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Duncan’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.1°
Duncan’s family here
2 relatives of Duncan Jones also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Duncan
Idina Menzel was born on May 30, 1971 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.4°N, Bromley Hospital keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Duncan’s cards
Computed from May 30, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Duncan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q552731 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Duncan Jones 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 Duncan Jones.
Quick answers about Duncan Jones’s chart
- How old is Duncan Jones?
- Duncan Jones is 55 years old, born May 30, 1971 in Bromley, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Duncan Jones?
- Duncan Jones is a Gemini: born May 30, 1971, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Duncan Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 30, 1971 birth.
- What is Duncan Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Duncan Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Duncan Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Duncan Jones's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
