Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham (born May 13, 1986, United States), aged 40, is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. Dunham is best known for Delusional Downtown Divas. Dunham's honours include Film Independent Spirit Awards and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series.
Lena Dunham’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Lena Dunham’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Lena in the U.S.?
#279
US rank in 2025
~146,805
Americans share it since 1880
1917
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Lena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Lena, according to the stars
Core essence
Lena 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 Lena 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, Lena is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Lena needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Lena wants to be loved
Lena 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 Lena like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Lena creates
How Lena 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. Lena 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: Lena is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Lena is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Lena does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Lena's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Lena sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Lena Dunham at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Lena Dunham's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Lena Dunham was born on May 13, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Lena Dunham's birth date, May 13, 1986, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Lena’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lena Dunham's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Lena Dunham combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Lena’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Lena Dunham, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
Lena’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.4° to 1.6° orb
Lena’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.6° to 1.7° orb
Lena’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.4° to 3.5° orb
Lena’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSuntrineMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
Lena’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
Lena’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.3° to 7.4° orb
Lena’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 2.4° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 3.3° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Lena’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Lena turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresVirgo 4°51′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Lena caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosAquarius 18°39′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Lena is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°17′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Lena is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Lena that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Eros trine Venus 1.9°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Lena’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Lena is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Lena’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lena Dunham, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Lena
2 other people here were born on May 13, 1986, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Florian WirtzGerman association football player (born 2003)
- Romain NtamackFrench rugby union player
- Rohit SharmaIndian cricketer (Captain)
Born in Tiger years
- Frédéric MistralProvençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige
- Paul EhrlichJewish-German physician and scientist
- John BerrymanAmerican poet and scholar
Also born on May 13
- Stevie Wonder1950
- Scott Morrison1968
- Debby Ryan1993
- Dennis Rodman1961
- Stephen Colbert1964
- Samantha Morton1977
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Michel LaurentFrench photographer
- George PerleAmerican composer
- Thomas K. McCrawAmerican historian
Other Taurus Tiger charts
- Khalid KareemAmerican football defensive end
- Jarrett AllenAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Isaiah HartensteinGerman-American basketball player
- Mohamed BambaAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
Other Radiant Guardians
- Jean-Pierre SerreFrench mathematician
- William ThurstonAmerican mathematician
- Klaus von KlitzingGerman physicist
- Horst Ludwig StörmerGerman physicist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Isaiah JacksonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Josh HartAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Malik MonkAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
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Lena’s cards
Every card is computed from May 13, 1986, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Lena Dunham, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Lena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q288359, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lena Dunham at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lena Dunham.
Quick answers about Lena Dunham’s chart
- How old is Lena Dunham?
- Lena Dunham is 40 years old, born May 13, 1986 in United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lena Dunham?
- Lena Dunham is a Taurus: born May 13, 1986, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Tiger.
- What is Lena Dunham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1986 birth.
- What time was Lena Dunham born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall is Lena Dunham?
- Lena Dunham is 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Lena Dunham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 13, 1986 birth date.
- What is Lena Dunham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 13, 1986 birth date.
- Where is Lena Dunham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lena Dunham's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
