Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949, London, United Kingdom), aged 77, is an English comics artist and writer. Gibbons is best known for Watchmen. Gibbons's honours include Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Inkpot Award and Hugo Award for Best Other Form.
Dave Gibbons’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Dave Gibbons’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Dave is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Dave feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Dave needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Dave builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Dave is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Dave gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Dave's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Dave Gibbons's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Dave Gibbons was born on April 14, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Dave Gibbons's birth date, April 14, 1949, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Dave’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dave Gibbons' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dave Gibbons combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Dave’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Dave Gibbons, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° 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.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.5° to 0.8° orb
Dave’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Dave’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.8° orb
Dave’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.7° to 2.8° orb
Dave’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.5° to 2.3° orb
Dave’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb
Dave’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb
Dave’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.1° to 5.2° orb
Dave’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb
Dave’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
Dave’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.7° to 5.7° orb
Dave’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.0° orb
Dave’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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 ℞Sagittarius 8°36′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Dave building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 12°45′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Dave is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 4°21′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
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. Dave is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°38′ (moves 0.04° 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 LilithPisces 29°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Dave is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.5°
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. ♂ Mars13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Uranus; 6 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Dave is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dave Gibbons, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Dave’s cards
Every card is computed from April 14, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Dave Gibbons, 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 Q445765, 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 Julian Tysoe from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dave Gibbons at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Gibbons.
Quick answers about Dave Gibbons’s chart
- How old is Dave Gibbons?
- Dave Gibbons is 77 years old, born April 14, 1949 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Dave Gibbons?
- Dave Gibbons is an Aries: born April 14, 1949, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Dave Gibbons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1949 birth.
- What time was Dave Gibbons 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 is Dave Gibbons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 14, 1949 birth date.
- What is Dave Gibbons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 14, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Dave Gibbons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dave Gibbons's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
