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Portrait of David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston (born December 24, 1948, San Francisco, United States), aged 77, is an Investigative journalist and author. Johnston is best known for The Making of Donald Trump. Johnston's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and George Polk Award.

David Cay Johnston’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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David Cay Johnston’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water 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 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Ivory · Gold

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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.

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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. David creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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: 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where David sits

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Intimate circleWide network
David

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
David

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
David

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to David Cay Johnston

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

David’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightBetelgeusedeep red · OrionBetelgeuse, in Orion. A deep red star, 30.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Betelgeuse →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

David Cay Johnston at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

David Cay Johnston's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

David Cay Johnston was born on December 24, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

David Cay Johnston's birth date, December 24, 1948, 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

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for David Cay Johnston, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.6° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 1.9° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.6° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.6° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 2°54′☉2°Moon in Libra · 23°18′☽23°Mercury in Capricorn · 9°43′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 5°34′♀5°Mars in Capricorn · 21°26′♂21°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°42′♃8°Saturn in Virgo · 6°09′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Gemini · 28°22′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Libra · 15°02′♆15°Pluto in Leo · 16°15′ · retrograde♇℞16°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb

    David’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.7° orb

    David’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° to 2.7° orb

    David’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.7° to 3.8° orb

    David’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.8° to 4.4° orb

    David’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb

    David’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.5° to 6.1° orb

    David’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.2° orb

    David’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb

    David’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb

    David’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.1° orb

    David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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 3°17′ (moves 0.12° 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.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 24°44′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. David is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 28°49′ (moves 0.73° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. David is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. David is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. David is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

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.

  • Chiron conjunction Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.9°

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. 1. ♄ Saturn11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: David is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.9°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Cay Johnston, 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 December 24, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for David Cay Johnston, 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 Q1173953, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Cay Johnston at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Cay Johnston.

Quick answers about David Cay Johnston’s chart

How old is David Cay Johnston?
David Cay Johnston is 77 years old, born December 24, 1948 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is David Cay Johnston?
David Cay Johnston is a Capricorn: born December 24, 1948, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
What is David Cay Johnston's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 24, 1948 birth.
What time was David Cay Johnston 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 Cay Johnston's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 24, 1948 birth date.
What is David Cay Johnston's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 24, 1948 birth date.
Where is David Cay Johnston's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David Cay Johnston's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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