David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones; January 8, 1947, Brixton, United Kingdom, 09:00; died 2016), was an English musician and actor. Bowie is best remembered for All the Young Dudes, Life on Mars? and Berlin Trilogy. Bowie's honours include Grammy Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
David Bowie’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with David
David Bowie’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
The SSA recorded 57,810 American boys and 111 girls named David in 1947: 6th among boys and 833rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name David Robert Jones, not the name they published under.
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Expression · starting things
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Soul Urge · freedom
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Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4).
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 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, 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 record David Bowie is measured by: Berlin Trilogy, Labyrinth and Life on Mars?.
David Bowie was taught at Ravensbourne University London and Ravens Wood School.
David Bowie was 17 when the work began in 1964.
Cause of death is recorded as liver cancer.
The family line: married Iman and Angela Bowie and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files David Bowie under Art collectors from London, Deaths from liver cancer in New York (state) and Actors from the London Borough of Bromley.
Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Berlin Trilogy, Labyrinth and Life on Mars?
- Educated at
- Ravensbourne University London, Ravens Wood School and City Literary Institute
- Instruments
- guitar, piano, saxophone and drum kit
- Awards
- Grammy Hall of Fame (1998), Great Britons (2002) and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996)
- Working from
- 1964
- Cause of death
- liver cancer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 136
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of David is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
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 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 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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means David does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to David Bowie
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brixton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Brixton at 09:00, David Bowie’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brixton that night
Computed for 51.46°N, at the documented birth time.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Brixton at the birth hour, 80.1° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -6° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- David Robert Jones
- Known as
- David Bowie
- Born in
- Brixton, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Lafayette Street, Manhattan in 2016.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What David's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 申.
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 3-planet stellium in Leo · 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.
Score your own chart →David Bowie at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
David Bowie's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
David Bowie was born on January 8, 1947, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
David Bowie's birth date, January 8, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in David Bowie's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in David Bowie's timed chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David Bowie combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
David’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 0.5° orb
David’s core identity and drive act as one.
MoontrineVenusseparating · 1.7° orb
David’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.9° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 2.6° orb
MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 3.0° orb
SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 4.4° orb
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb
MarssextileJupiterapplying · 4.9° orb
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 5.9° orb
SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.9° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironScorpio 6°51′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 24°32′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 5°30′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 20°28′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°34′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Eros square Saturn 1.4°
- Eros square Moon 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Eros square Ascendant 2.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.7°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn12.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, 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.- Stellium in Leo · Moon, Saturn, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Moon semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.9°
David’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 11 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 7 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 12 | Moon, Saturn, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 11 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 7 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 10 | Venus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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3 relatives of David Bowie also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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David’s cards
Computed from January 8, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5383 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Adam Bielawski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Bowie.
Quick answers about David Bowie’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Bowie?
- David Bowie was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1947, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What was David Bowie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1947 birth.
- What time was David Bowie born?
- 09:00 local time in Brixton, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was David Bowie's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 09:00 birth time in Brixton, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was David Bowie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Bowie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Bowie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Bowie's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
