David Attenborough
David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926, Isleworth, United Kingdom), aged 100, is a British broadcaster and naturalist. Attenborough's honours include Order of the Companions of Honour, Champions of the Earth and Michael Faraday Prize.
David Attenborough’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with David
David Attenborough’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name David in the U.S.?
#35
US rank in 2025
~3,689,613
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
The SSA recorded 9,041 American boys and 56 girls named David in 1926: 22nd among boys and 998th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 4: tact against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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 1926, 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 David apart
The Benjamin Franklin Medal came in 1990, when David Attenborough was 64.
Study took David Attenborough to Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Clare College.
David Attenborough was 25 when the work began in 1951.
On the family side, David Attenborough was born to Mary Clegg and Frederick Attenborough and married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel.
Wikipedia files David Attenborough under British non-fiction environmental writers, BBC Two controllers and Attenborough family.
Don Rickles shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Clare College and University College London
- Awards
- Order of Merit (2005) and Benjamin Franklin Medal (1990)
- Working from
- 1951
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 92
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David 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 David 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.
How David wants to be loved
David 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 David creates
How David makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. David creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: David is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. David is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; David slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from David's birth date. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Attenborough
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Isleworth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Isleworth that night
Computed for 51.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Isleworth at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
Isleworth sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Isleworth on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 12% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
David Attenborough's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
David Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
David Attenborough's birth date, May 8, 1926, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Attenborough's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- David Attenborough combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.3° orb
David’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
David’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.5° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 3.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 29°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 18°29′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°14′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°25′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
David’s family here
One relative of David Attenborough also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as David
Don Rickles was born on May 8, 1926 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.5°N, Isleworth keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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David’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
22 · Master Builder♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183337 (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.
The same David Attenborough at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Attenborough.
Quick answers about David Attenborough’s chart
- How old is David Attenborough?
- David Attenborough is 100 years old, born May 8, 1926 in Isleworth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is David Attenborough?
- David Attenborough is a Taurus: born May 8, 1926, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is David Attenborough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1926 birth.
- What is David Attenborough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Attenborough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Attenborough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Attenborough's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
