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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

In 1963, 78,444 American boys and 236 girls were registered David — 3rd among boys and 659th 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.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive 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

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

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 1962, 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 George Polk Award came in 2003, when David Barstow was 40.

Study took David Barstow to Medill School of Journalism and Northwestern University.

On Wikipedia the categories read University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism faculty, Journalists from Florida and Medill School of Journalism alumni.

Christian Dior (1905) and Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Medill School of Journalism and Northwestern University
Awards
George Polk Award (2003), Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2004) and Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2019)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
6

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. Working below.

Where David sits

Six lines

David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Boston at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 3.7° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.

Boston sits at 42.4°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 −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 13% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Venus · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars retrograde

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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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.

What Aquarius means →

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.

What the Tiger means →

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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.4° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.5° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 6.7° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 7°49′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°06′ (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 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°

David’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in David’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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David’s cards

Computed from January 21, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same David Barstow at Wikipedia and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is David Barstow's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is David Barstow's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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