David Auburn
David Auburn (born November 30, 1969, Chicago, United States), aged 56, is an American playwright and director. Auburn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play and Guggenheim Fellowship.
David Auburn’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with David
David Auburn’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 David in the U.S.?
#35
US rank in 2025
~3,689,613
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
In 1969, 63,672 American boys and 296 girls were registered David — 2nd among boys and 572nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as 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
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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 Guggenheim Fellowship came in 2000, when David Auburn was 31.
Study took David Auburn to Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School and Juilliard School.
David Auburn was 28 when the work began in 1997.
On Wikipedia the categories read Screenwriters from Arkansas, Dramatists and playwrights from Ohio and People from Jonesboro, Arkansas.
David Lindsay-Abaire 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
- Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School, Juilliard School and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2000), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2001) and Tony Award for Best Play (2001)
- Working from
- 1997
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of David 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.
The vibe
Underneath, David needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What David needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with David even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. David creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: David is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. David 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. David 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 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 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.
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 Auburn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Chicago sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 60% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
David Auburn's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
David Auburn was born on November 30, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
David Auburn's birth date, November 30, 1969, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Auburn's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- David Auburn 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.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 28° Leo 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto1.4° to 2.6° orb
David’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.8° to 6.0° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.9° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.4° to 11.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°43′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 21°39′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 6°25′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°10′ (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 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.3°
- Eros trine Mars 2.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in David’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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
Born the same day as David
David Lindsay-Abaire was born on November 30, 1969 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like David
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Born in United States
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- Brett FavreAmerican football player (born 1969)
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
David’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57061 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Auburn at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Auburn.
Quick answers about David Auburn’s chart
- How old is David Auburn?
- David Auburn is 56 years old, born November 30, 1969 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Auburn?
- David Auburn is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1969, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is David Auburn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1969 birth.
- What is David Auburn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Auburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Auburn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Auburn's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
