David Brin
David Brin (born October 6, 1950, Glendale, United States), aged 75, is an American scientist and science fiction author (born 1950). Brin is best known for Earth, Startide Rising and The Postman. Brin's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
David Brin’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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David Brin’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of David is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. David gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. David is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. David has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from David's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
David Brin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 6, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
David Brin was born on October 6, 1950, which falls in a Metal 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 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
David Brin's birth date, October 6, 1950, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Brin's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David Brin combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Brin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 1.3° orb
David’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 4.4° orb
David’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.8° orb
David’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareUranus5.6° to 6.8° orb
David’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.2° to 7.3° orb
David’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 1.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 2.9° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 17°24′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has David building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 19°08′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. David is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLibra 28°43′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. David is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 23°10′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. David is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. David is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.8°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.8°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: David is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Brin, 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 October 6, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Brin, 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 Q315069, 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 Glogger at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Brin at Wikipedia, davidbrin.com, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Brin.
Quick answers about David Brin’s chart
- How old is David Brin?
- David Brin is 75 years old, born October 6, 1950 in Glendale, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Brin?
- David Brin is a Libra: born October 6, 1950, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- What is David Brin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 6, 1950 birth.
- What time was David Brin 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 Brin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 6, 1950 birth date.
- What is David Brin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 6, 1950 birth date.
- Where is David Brin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Brin's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
