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David C. Turnley

David C. Turnley (born June 22, 1955, Fort Wayne, United States), aged 71, is an American photographer. Turnley's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Robert Capa Gold Medal and World Press Photo of the Year.

David C. Turnley’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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David C. Turnley’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood 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

David ranked 2nd among boys and 791st among girls in 1955, the year of this birth, with 86,306 American boys and 148 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What David’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 4: voice 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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Pearl · Forest

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 1955, 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

David C. Turnley took the Oskar Barnack Award in 1985, at 30.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Elmhurst High School.

Wikipedia's editors put David C. Turnley under Photography in Russia, People from Fort Wayne, Indiana and University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni.

Meryl Streep (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Elmhurst High School and University of Paris
Awards
World Press Photo of the Year (1988), Robert Capa Gold Medal (1989) and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (1990)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
7

What the chart says

David, according to the stars

Core essence

David feels the room before entering it. The core of David is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for David, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How David wants to be loved

David wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to David like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means David does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

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

PrivateExpressive
David

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
David

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to David C. Turnley

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

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

The sky over Fort Wayne that night

Computed for 41.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fort Wayne was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 79.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fort Wayne on any night.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 12% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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David C. Turnley in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

David C. Turnley's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

David C. Turnley was born on June 22, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

David C. Turnley's birth date, June 22, 1955, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 28° to 12° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.4° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 5° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.7° orbSun in Cancer · 0°30′☉0°Moon in Leo · 5°41′☽5°Mercury in Gemini · 21°10′ · retrograde☿℞21°Venus in Gemini · 11°21′♀11°Mars in Cancer · 17°59′♂17°Jupiter in Leo · 1°56′♃1°Saturn in Scorpio · 15°04′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Cancer · 26°15′♅26°Neptune in Libra · 25°31′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 24°49′♇24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb

    David’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb

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

  • stableMarstrineSaturn2.6° to 3.3° orb

    David’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.6° to 5.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.2° to 16.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 2.2° to 16.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 4°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 22°06′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 10°50′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 10°08′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°30′ (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 opposition Venus 0.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.2°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.6°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 1.5°

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David’s cards

Computed from June 22, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q339426 (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 Davidturnley, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David C. Turnley at Wikipedia, davidturnley.com and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David C. Turnley.

Quick answers about David C. Turnley’s chart

How old is David C. Turnley?
David C. Turnley is 71 years old, born June 22, 1955 in Fort Wayne, United States.
What zodiac sign is David C. Turnley?
David C. Turnley is a Cancer: born June 22, 1955, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is David C. Turnley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1955 birth.
What is David C. Turnley's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is David C. Turnley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David C. Turnley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David C. Turnley's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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