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Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson (born May 6, 1929, Troy, United States; died 2018), was an American writer and journalist. Anderson's honours include International Boxing Hall of Fame and Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Dave Anderson’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Dave Anderson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#2456

US rank in 2025

~64,492

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

Dave ranked 304th in 1929, the year of this birth, with 332 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dave’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (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

Dave’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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 Dave apart

Dave Anderson took the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1981, at 52.

College of the Holy Cross and Xavier High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1951, at 22.

Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.

Wikipedia's editors put Dave Anderson under People from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Bill Nunn Memorial Award recipients and Xavier High School (New York City) alumni.

The same date carries Paul Lauterbur. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
College of the Holy Cross and Xavier High School
Awards
International Boxing Hall of Fame (2008) and Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1981)
Working from
1951
Cause of death
heart failure
Sport
boxing
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Dave, according to the stars

Core essence

Dave 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 Dave 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, Dave 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 Dave needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Dave wants to be loved

Dave wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Dave creates

How Dave makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Dave creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Dave is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dave is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Dave does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Dave's birth date. Working below.

Where Dave sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Dave

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dave

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

PrivateExpressive
Dave

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dave

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

PracticalVisionary
Dave

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dave

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

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

Dave’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 81.7° 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, 30.5° 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 Troy that night

Computed for 42.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Troy at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Troy at all: they sit past the −47.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Troy, United States

The death is recorded at Cresskill, Bergen County in 2018.

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

How unusual Dave's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Venus retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Dave Anderson in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Dave Anderson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 6, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Dave Anderson was born on May 6, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Dave Anderson's birth date, May 6, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Dave’s chart

Dave’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.3° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.4° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.9° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.5° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 5.7° orbSun in Taurus · 15°37′☉15°Moon in Aries · 10°57′☽10°Mercury in Gemini · 4°36′☿4°Venus in Aries · 22°08′ · retrograde♀℞22°Mars in Cancer · 26°32′♂26°Jupiter in Taurus · 21°22′♃21°Saturn in Sagittarius · 29°56′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Aries · 9°28′♅9°Neptune in Leo · 28°36′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Cancer · 16°29′♇16°

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

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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

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Dave’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb

    Dave’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.8° orb

    Dave’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto4.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.2° to 6.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.6° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.3° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 4.1° to 18.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 10°13′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 2°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 7°46′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 28°43′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°23′ (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 trine Neptune 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.6°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.7°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.5°

Dave’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Dave’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.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.1°

Born the same day as Dave

Paul Lauterbur was born on May 6, 1929 too, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 42.7°N, the sky above Troy stops at −47.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Dave’s cards

Computed from May 6, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dave’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5228237 (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.

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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 Dave Anderson.

Quick answers about Dave Anderson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Dave Anderson?
Dave Anderson was a Taurus: born May 6, 1929, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Dave Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1929 birth.
What was Dave Anderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Dave Anderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Dave Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Dave Anderson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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