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Dylan O'Brien

Dylan O'Brien (born August 26, 1991, New York City, United States), aged 35, is an American actor. Notable films include The Maze Runner, Teen Wolf and Bumblebee. O'Brien's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, MTV Movie Award for Best Hero and Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi.

Dylan O'Brien’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Dylan O'Brien’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#41

US rank in 2025

~434,951

Americans share it since 1953

2001

its peak year

In 1991, 9,763 American boys and 116 girls were registered Dylan — 46th among boys and 1,386th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dylan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

Dylan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Dylan apart

The Teen Choice Award for Choice TV - Villain came in 2014, when Dylan O'Brien was 23.

Dylan O'Brien was taught at Mira Costa High School.

Dylan O'Brien was 19 when the work began in 2010.

The family line: born to Lisa Simpsons O'Brien and Patrick O'Brien.

Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Mira Costa High School
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (2015), Teen Choice Award for Choice TV - Villain (2014) and Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer TV Star: Male (2016)
Working from
2010
Wikipedia editions
55

What the chart says

Dylan, according to the stars

Core essence

Dylan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Dylan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Dylan is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Dylan needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Dylan wants to be loved

Dylan wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Dylan openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Dylan creates

How Dylan 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. Dylan 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: Dylan is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Dylan is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Dylan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Dylan's birth date. Working below.

Where Dylan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Dylan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dylan

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

PrivateExpressive
Dylan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dylan

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

PracticalVisionary
Dylan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dylan

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dylan O'Brien

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The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.7° above the horizon in Lyra.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.

New York City sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States
Lives in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Dylan O'Brien's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dylan O'Brien: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Dylan's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde

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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Dylan O'Brien in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Dylan O'Brien's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1991, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Dylan O'Brien was born on August 26, 1991, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Dylan O'Brien's birth date, August 26, 1991, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Dylan’s chart

Dylan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Pluto · Trine, 0° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.6° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4.2° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 5° orbSun in Virgo · 2°55′☉2°Moon in Pisces · 17°47′☽17°Mercury in Leo · 24°37′ · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Leo · 26°54′ · retrograde♀℞26°Mars in Virgo · 26°24′♂26°Jupiter in Leo · 26°25′♃26°Saturn in Aquarius · 1°24′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Capricorn · 10°04′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Capricorn · 14°14′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Scorpio · 17°48′♇17°

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

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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

  • stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.3° orb

    Dylan’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 0.9° orb

    Dylan’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb

    Dylan’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune4.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn4.7° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.4° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 2.6° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 4°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 7°17′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 9°02′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 13°35′ (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 conjunction Neptune 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.7°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 2.7°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.8°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 3.0°

Dylan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Dylan’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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°

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Dylan’s cards

Computed from August 26, 1991. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dylan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q714458 (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 Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dylan O'Brien at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, 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 Dylan O'Brien.

Quick answers about Dylan O'Brien’s chart

How old is Dylan O'Brien?
Dylan O'Brien is 35 years old, born August 26, 1991 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dylan O'Brien?
Dylan O'Brien is a Virgo: born August 26, 1991, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Dylan O'Brien's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1991 birth.
What is Dylan O'Brien's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Dylan O'Brien's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dylan O'Brien's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dylan O'Brien's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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