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David Barstow

David Barstow (born January 21, 1963, Boston, United States), aged 63, is an American journalist. Barstow's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

David Barstow’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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David Barstow’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, 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

US Social Security Administration public records

David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

David, according to the stars

Core essence

David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, David is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What David needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How David wants to be loved

David wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with David and watch them fall for you again.

How David creates

How David 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. David 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: 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. David 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means David fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from David's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where David sits

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Intimate circleWide network
David

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

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

PrivateExpressive
David

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
David

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

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 David Barstow

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

David’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 86.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 41.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

David Barstow in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

David Barstow's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 21, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

David Barstow was born on January 21, 1963, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

David Barstow's birth date, January 21, 1963, 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 David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for David Barstow, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 2° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 0°56′☉0°Moon in Sagittarius · 13°48′☽13°Mercury in Capricorn · 28°04′ · retrograde☿℞28°Venus in Sagittarius · 14°06′♀14°Mars in Leo · 20°11′ · retrograde♂℞20°Jupiter in Pisces · 13°02′♃13°Saturn in Aquarius · 12°18′♄12°Uranus in Virgo · 4°33′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Scorpio · 15°29′♆15°Pluto in Virgo · 11°48′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 7.0° orb

    David’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 6.1° orb

    David’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.5° orb

    David’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.1° to 1.3° orb

    David’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.4° to 2.2° orb

    David’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 4.0° orb

    David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

    David’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb

    David’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

    David’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

    David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.5° to 4.9° orb

    David’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 6.7° orb

    David’s affections flow straight into their drive.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

David’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 8°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has David absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 17°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has David caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 7°49′ (moves 0.70° 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 David attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 14°23′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has David needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of David that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

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 Mars 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.6°

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°).

David’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. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: David is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 David’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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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 semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Barstow, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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David’s cards

Every card is computed from January 21, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for David Barstow, 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

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5231175, 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 Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Barstow at Wikipedia and X.

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 David Barstow.

Quick answers about David Barstow’s chart

How old is David Barstow?
David Barstow is 63 years old, born January 21, 1963 in Boston, United States.
What zodiac sign is David Barstow?
David Barstow is an Aquarius: born January 21, 1963, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
What is David Barstow's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 21, 1963 birth.
What time was David Barstow 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 David Barstow's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 21, 1963 birth date.
What is David Barstow's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 21, 1963 birth date.
Where is David Barstow's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David Barstow's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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