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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Lena
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
Lena ranked 496th in 1986, the year of this birth, with 431 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lena’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1986, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Lena apart
The shelf Lena Dunham is read from: Delusional Downtown Divas.
The classrooms behind this chart: Saint Ann's School and Friends Seminary.
The working life starts in 2006, at 20.
Lena Dunham was born to Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham and married Luis Felber.
The same date carries Robert Pattinson and Alexander Rybak. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Delusional Downtown Divas
- Educated at
- Saint Ann's School, Friends Seminary and Oberlin College
- Awards
- Film Independent Spirit Awards (2011) and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, Comedy Series (2012)
- Working from
- 2006
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
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. Working below.
Where Lena sits
Six lines
Lena’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Lena Dunham
Three stars chosen from the real sky above United States 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 United States that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at United States was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 22% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
How unusual Lena's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Cancer 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
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
stableSuntrineMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.3° to 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 4°51′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°39′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°17′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°29′ (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 0.6°
- 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°
Lena’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Lena’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Lena
2 other people here were born on May 13, 1986, 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. United States sits at 39.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Lena
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- Phoebe Waller-Bridge1985
Born in United States
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- Ashley OlsenAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer and actress (born 1986)
- Morgan CoxAmerican football player (born 1986)
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More charts like Lena’s
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
Computed from May 13, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q288359 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Lena Dunham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
