David Carradine
David Carradine (born December 8, 1936, Hollywood, United States; died 2009), was an American actor. Carradine's honours include Saturn Awards, Theatre World Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
David Carradine’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with David
David Carradine’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
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) × mutable 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
Of the names registered in 1936, David came 10th among boys and 954th among girls, carried by 17,476 American boys and 52 girls.
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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
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
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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 Carradine took the Theatre World Award in 1966, at 30.
The classrooms behind this chart: Laney College and Bayard Rustin Educational Complex.
The working life starts in 1947, at 11.
Cause of death is recorded as erotic asphyxiation; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The family line: born to Ardanelle McCool and John Carradine and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for David Carradine: Military personnel from Oakland, California, Deaths by autoerotic asphyxiation and Accidental deaths in Thailand.
Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Laney College, Bayard Rustin Educational Complex and San Francisco State University
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1966) and Saturn Awards (2005)
- Working from
- 1947
- Cause of death
- erotic asphyxiation
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of David is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, David cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What David needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show David you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. David fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Carradine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hollywood 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 Hollywood that night
Computed for 34.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hollywood was Almach, in Andromeda, 81.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hollywood on any night.
Sun 52° below the horizon, Moon down and 20% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hollywood, United States
The death is recorded at Bangkok, Thailand in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Carradine: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
David Carradine's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
David Carradine was born on December 8, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
David Carradine's birth date, December 8, 1936, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Carradine's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Carradine combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.2° to 2.4° orb
David’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars2.1° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.6° to 4.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.5° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.9° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 20°48′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°60′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°06′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 12°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.1°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Neptune, SunAn 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 quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.9°
David’s family here
2 relatives of David Carradine also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Also born on December 8
- Jim Morrison1943
- Nicki Minaj1982
- Sinéad O'Connor1966
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- Sammy Davis Jr.1925
- Ashish Chanchlani1993
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- Jawaharlal NehruPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
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Other Evergreen Healers
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
David’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
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 Q187038 (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 Credit to lukeford.net (permission statement at en:User:Tabercil/Luke Ford permission), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Carradine at Wikipedia, david-carradine.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Carradine.
Quick answers about David Carradine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Carradine?
- David Carradine was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1936, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was David Carradine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1936 birth.
- How tall was David Carradine?
- David Carradine was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was David Carradine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Carradine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Carradine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Carradine's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
