Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck (born December 6, 1920, Concord, United States; died 2012), was an American jazz pianist and composer. Brubeck's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.
Dave Brubeck’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Dave Brubeck’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Dave’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Dave, according to the stars
Core essence
Dave is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Dave is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Dave wants to be loved
Dave wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Dave you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Dave creates
How Dave 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. Dave 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: Dave is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dave is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Dave goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Dave's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dave sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Dave Brubeck at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Dave Brubeck's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Dave Brubeck was born on December 6, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Dave Brubeck's birth date, December 6, 1920, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Dave’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dave Brubeck's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Dave Brubeck combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Dave’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Dave Brubeck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Dave’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Dave’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.3° to 1.5° orb
Dave’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.2° orb
Dave’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
Dave’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenustrineJupiter4.9° to 6.1° orb
Dave’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.1° to 6.9° orb
Dave’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranustrinePluto6.3° orb
Dave’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° orb
Dave’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Dave’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Dave may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Dave is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°11′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Dave attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Dave is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Dave is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.3°
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°).
Dave’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Dave is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Dave’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dave Brubeck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Dave
George Porter was born on December 6, 1920 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Dave’s cards
Every card is computed from December 6, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Dave Brubeck, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Dave’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108597, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Pablosecca, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dave Brubeck at Wikipedia, davebrubeck.com, IMDb, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dave Brubeck.
Quick answers about Dave Brubeck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dave Brubeck?
- Dave Brubeck was a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1920, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1920 birth.
- What time was Dave Brubeck born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 6, 1920 birth date.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 6, 1920 birth date.
- Where was Dave Brubeck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dave Brubeck's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
