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D. B. Weiss

D. B. Weiss (born April 23, 1971, Chicago, United States), aged 55, is an American writer and producer. Weiss's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

D. B. Weiss’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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D. B. Weiss’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What D. B. Weiss’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

D. B. Weiss’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets D. B. Weiss apart

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form came in 2012, when D. B. Weiss was 41.

The schooling ran through Trinity College, Dublin and Wesleyan University.

On Wikipedia the categories read Highland Park High School (Illinois) alumni, Novelists from Chicago and Screenwriters from Chicago.

Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, Wesleyan University and University of Iowa
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2012), Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2013) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (2015)
Nominated for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
34

What the chart says

D. B. Weiss, according to the stars

Core essence

D. B. Weiss 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 D. B. Weiss 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, D. B. Weiss runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What D. B. Weiss needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How D. B. Weiss creates

How D. B. Weiss 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. D. B. Weiss 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: D. B. Weiss 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. D. B. Weiss 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means D. B. Weiss 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 D. B. Weiss's birth date. Working below.

Where D. B. Weiss sits

Six lines

D. B. Weiss’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
D. B. Weiss

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
D. B. Weiss

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
D. B. Weiss

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to D. B. Weiss

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

D. B. Weiss’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.8° up.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Chicago sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.

How unusual D.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · No Water 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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Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

D. B. Weiss's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

D. B. Weiss was born on April 23, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

D. B. Weiss's birth date, April 23, 1971, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in D. B. Weiss’s chart

D. B. Weiss’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.4° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.5° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.6° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.9° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.6° orbSun in Taurus · 2°56′☉2°Moon in Aries · 13°02′☽13°Mercury in Aries · 26°39′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Aries · 0°07′♀0°Mars in Capricorn · 24°36′♂24°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 4°59′ · retrograde♃℞4°Saturn in Taurus · 22°54′♄22°Uranus in Libra · 10°37′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Sagittarius · 2°28′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Virgo · 27°29′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.4° to 2.6° orb

    D. B. Weiss’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.5° to 1.9° orb

    D. B. Weiss’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune1.7° to 3.0° orb

    D. B. Weiss’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 7.1° orb

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

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.5° to 15.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

D. B. Weiss’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 11°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 29°02′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 13°41′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 6°16′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 3.0°

D. B. Weiss’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in D. B. Weiss’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.1°

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D. B. Weiss’s cards

Computed from April 23, 1971. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

D. B. Weiss’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1151388 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by D. B. Weiss.

Quick answers about D. B. Weiss’s chart

How old is D. B. Weiss?
D. B. Weiss is 55 years old, born April 23, 1971 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is D. B. Weiss?
D. B. Weiss is a Taurus: born April 23, 1971, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is D. B. Weiss's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1971 birth.
What is D. B. Weiss's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is D. B. Weiss's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is D. B. Weiss's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is D. B. Weiss's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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