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Dave Barry

Dave Barry (born July 3, 1947, Armonk, United States), aged 79, is an American writer. Barry's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Dave Barry’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Dave Barry’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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

In 1947, 1,693 American boys and 5 girls were registered Dave — 155th among boys and 5,471st among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Dave’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5).

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

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

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 1947, 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

The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1988, when Dave Barry was 41.

Dave Barry was taught at Haverford College and Pleasantville High School.

The family line: married Michelle Kaufman.

On Wikipedia the categories read American humor columnists, People from Pleasantville, New York and New York (state) Libertarians.

Franz Kafka (1883) and Julian Assange (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Haverford College and Pleasantville High School
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
32

What the chart says

Dave, according to the stars

Core essence

Dave feels the room before entering it. The core of Dave is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Dave, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Dave is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Dave needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Dave wants to be loved

Dave 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 Dave like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Dave creates

How Dave makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Dave creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Dave 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 4 is the builder. Dave is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Dave scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dave

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Dave

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dave

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

PracticalVisionary
Dave

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dave

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Dave Barry

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

Dave’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 76.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 19° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Armonk that night

Computed for 41.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Izar stood nearest the zenith over Armonk at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.1° above the horizon in Boötes.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

Armonk sits at 41.1°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 −48.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Dave's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Neptune · A bowl chart · No Earth 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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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Dave Barry's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 3, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Dave Barry was born on July 3, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Dave Barry's birth date, July 3, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 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 7° to 19° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.6° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Cancer · 10°52′☉10°Moon in Capricorn · 13°18′☽13°Mercury in Cancer · 26°56′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Gemini · 24°02′♀24°Mars in Gemini · 1°47′♂1°Jupiter in Scorpio · 17°55′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Leo · 8°17′♄8°Uranus in Gemini · 23°05′♅23°Neptune in Libra · 8°05′♆8°Pluto in Leo · 12°01′♇12°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.9° orb

    Dave’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Dave’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Dave’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.9° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileMarsorb from 4.4° to 5.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineJupiterorb from 6.6° to 7.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 2°18′

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 29°05′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 4°16′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 11°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°12′ (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 sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros opposition Mars 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.8°

Dave’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

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.

  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.7°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°

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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works

Dave’s cards

Computed from July 3, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Dave’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q673567 (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 Purocafe (talk), crop by Ruhrfisch ><>°°, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Dave Barry 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 Dave Barry.

Quick answers about Dave Barry’s chart

How old is Dave Barry?
Dave Barry is 79 years old, born July 3, 1947 in Armonk, United States.
What zodiac sign is Dave Barry?
Dave Barry is a Cancer: born July 3, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Dave Barry's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 3, 1947 birth.
What is Dave Barry's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Dave Barry's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Dave Barry's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dave Barry's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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