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Duncan Laurence

Duncan Laurence (born April 11, 1994, Spijkenisse, Netherlands), aged 32, is a Dutch singer. Laurence is best known for Arcade. Laurence's honours include Marcel Bezençon Awards and First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Duncan Laurence’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Duncan Laurence’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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

In 1994, 388 American boys were registered Duncan — 512th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Duncan’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 N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against 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

2 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

White · Crimson · Forest

The record

What sets Duncan apart

Arcade. That is the work the name is attached to.

Duncan Laurence was 20 when the work began in 2014.

Alessandra Ambrosio (1981) and Thiago Alcântara (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Arcade
Instruments
piano and voice
Awards
Marcel Bezençon Awards (2019) and First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest (2019)
Working from
2014
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Duncan, according to the stars

Core essence

Duncan leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Duncan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Duncan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Duncan is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Duncan is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Duncan 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 Duncan's birth date. Working below.

Where Duncan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Duncan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Duncan

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Duncan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Duncan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Duncan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Duncan

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Duncan Laurence

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Spijkenisse on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Duncan’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 84.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 18.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Spijkenisse that night

Computed for 51.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Spijkenisse at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Spijkenisse at all: they sit past the −38.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.

How unusual Duncan's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No Air 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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Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Duncan Laurence's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1994, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Wood Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Duncan Laurence was born on April 11, 1994, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Duncan Laurence's birth date, April 11, 1994, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Duncan’s chart

Duncan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.5° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.4° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun in Aries · 21°17′☉21°Moon in Aries · 25°41′☽25°Mercury in Aries · 2°54′☿2°Venus in Taurus · 11°50′♀11°Mars in Pisces · 27°24′♂27°Jupiter in Scorpio · 12°06′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Pisces · 8°25′♄8°Uranus in Capricorn · 26°11′♅26°Neptune in Capricorn · 23°18′♆23°Pluto in Scorpio · 27°37′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Duncan’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Duncan’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Duncan’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.8° to 1.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune2.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.4° to 5.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 3°14′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 23°22′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 19°47′ (moves 0.85° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 15°39′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 0°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°

Duncan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Duncan’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.

  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.1°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.6°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.8°

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Duncan’s cards

Computed from April 11, 1994. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Duncan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60758679 (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 Martin Fjellanger, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Duncan Laurence at Wikipedia, duncanlaurence.nl, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Duncan Laurence.

Quick answers about Duncan Laurence’s chart

How old is Duncan Laurence?
Duncan Laurence is 32 years old, born April 11, 1994 in Spijkenisse, Netherlands.
What zodiac sign is Duncan Laurence?
Duncan Laurence is an Aries: born April 11, 1994, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Duncan Laurence's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1994 birth.
What is Duncan Laurence's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Duncan Laurence's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Duncan Laurence's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Duncan Laurence's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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