David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927, Denver, United States; died 2019), was an American historian. Davis served as chairperson. Davis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and National Book Award.
David Brion Davis’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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David Brion Davis’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
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David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
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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.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with David, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. David creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: David is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. David is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of David leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means David is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from David's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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David Brion Davis at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
David Brion Davis's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1927, 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.
Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
David Brion Davis was born on February 16, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
David Brion Davis's birth date, February 16, 1927, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Brion Davis' date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Brion Davis combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Brion Davis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
David’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 6.8° orb
David’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.8° orb
David’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileUranus0.1° to 0.5° orb
David’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.0° to 2.1° orb
David’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.5° to 2.0° orb
David’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.6° to 3.3° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrinePluto3.2° to 4.4° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.9° to 5.5° orb
David’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 5.6° orb
David’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.4° orb
David’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ ChironAries 28°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: David may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°37′ (moves 0.29° 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.
♡ ErosPisces 26°05′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. David is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 15°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. David is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has David exacting with themselves first.
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 square Mercury 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.8°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.1°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.3°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
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. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: David is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Pisces · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Neptune, MarsAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Brion Davis, 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 February 16, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Brion Davis, 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 Q1173832, 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.
The same David Brion Davis at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about David Brion Davis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Brion Davis?
- David Brion Davis was an Aquarius: born February 16, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
- What was David Brion Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1927 birth.
- What time was David Brion Davis 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 was David Brion Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 16, 1927 birth date.
- What was David Brion Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 16, 1927 birth date.
- Where was David Brion Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Brion Davis's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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