Ted Danson
Ted Danson (born December 29, 1947, San Diego, United States, 22:58), aged 78, is an American actor (born 1947). Danson's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and honorary doctor of Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ted Danson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
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Ted Danson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ted in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~75,424
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Ted apart
Don Bartletti shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Ted, according to the stars
Core essence
Ted is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ted is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Ted 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 Ted 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 Ted wants to be loved
Ted wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Ted be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Ted creates
How Ted makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ted creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Ted 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ted 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ted 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 Ted's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Ted Danson's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Ted Danson was born on December 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Ted Danson's birth date, December 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Ted’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ted Danson's timed chart: Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 4th house and Uranus in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ted Danson's timed chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ted Danson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Ted’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
Ted’s growth flows straight into their depths.
SuntrineMarsseparating · 0.7° orb
Ted’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
MoonsextileNeptuneapplying · 0.8° orb
Ted’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnsextileUranusseparating · 1.5° orb
Ted’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb
Ted’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurytrineMarsapplying · 1.8° orb
Ted’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 1.8° orb
Ted’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonconjunctionPlutoapplying · 2.4° orb
Ted’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.5° orb
Ted’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 2.6° orb
Ted’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.2° orb
Ted’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonoppositionVenusseparating · 5.3° orb
Ted’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 6.1° orb
Ted’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.5° orb
Ted’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.7° orb
Ted’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Ted’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 20°42′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Ted carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 25°39′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Ted looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°55′ · House 6
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. Ted is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 25°40′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ted needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°13′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ted at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Neptune 0.0°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.4°
- Eros opposition Moon 0.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.4°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.1°
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°).
Ted’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Ted is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Ted’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · Moon, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Moon biquintile Mercury 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Ted’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 5 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 4 | Jupiter | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 10 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 5 | Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 5 | Moon, Saturn, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born the same day as Ted
Don Bartletti was born on December 29, 1947 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Ted’s cards
Every card is computed from December 29, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q381203, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Rob Dicaterino, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted Danson 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.
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Quick answers about Ted Danson’s chart
- How old is Ted Danson?
- Ted Danson is 78 years old, born December 29, 1947 in San Diego, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ted Danson?
- Ted Danson is a Capricorn: born December 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Ted Danson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1947 birth.
- What time was Ted Danson born?
- 22:58 local time in San Diego, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Ted Danson's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 22:58 birth time in San Diego, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Ted Danson?
- Ted Danson is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ted Danson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 29, 1947 birth date.
- What is Ted Danson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 20°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 29, 1947 birth time.
- Where is Ted Danson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ted Danson's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
