David Cheriton
David Cheriton (born March 29, 1951, Vancouver, Canada), aged 75, is a Canadian businessman and computer scientist.
David Cheriton’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with David
David Cheriton’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth 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 5th among boys and 903rd among girls in 1951, the year of this birth, with 64,788 American boys and 102 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.
33
Expression · lifting other people
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Cheriton took the SIGCOMM Award in 2003, at 52.
Training came by way of University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo.
On the family side, David Cheriton was married Füsun Ertemalp.
The same date carries Nick Ut. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo
- Awards
- SIGCOMM Award (2003)
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of David is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once David is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. David creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means David gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Cheriton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vancouver 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 Vancouver that night
Computed for 49.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Vancouver at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Vancouver sits at 49.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Vancouver on any night.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vancouver, Canada
- Lives in
- Edmonton
Wikidata records Edmonton as David Cheriton's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Cheriton: 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
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
David Cheriton's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
David Cheriton was born on March 29, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
David Cheriton's birth date, March 29, 1951, 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 Cheriton's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Cheriton combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.3° orb
David’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrinePluto3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.9° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.7° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.4° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 2°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 24°08′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°05′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 28°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°17′ (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 trine Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.0°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
Born the same day as David
Nick Ut was born on March 29, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Vancouver, at 49.3°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like David’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Anthony PrattAustralian businessman
- Martin LorentzonSwedish entrepreneur
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Born in Rabbit years
- Joy HarjoAmerican Poet Laureate
- Simon ArmitageBritish poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
- Sam RaganAmerican poet
Also born on March 29
- Lucy Lawless1968
- Sam Walton1918
- Irene1991
- Amy Sedaris1961
- Eric Idle1943
- Joseph Hooton Taylor1941
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Nikki BlonskyAmerican actress
- TinasheAmerican singer, actress, and dancer
- Tiwa SavageNigerian singer, songwriter, and actress
Other Aries Rabbit charts
- Olivia HusseyBritish actress
- Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyBritish model
- Hugh MasekelaSouth African jazz trumpeter
- Marc JacobsAmerican fashion designer
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Johni BroomeAmerican basketball player
- Dillon BrooksCanadian basketball player (born 1996)
- Jonathan IsaacAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Wendell Carter Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- James WatsonAmerican molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate
- Kevin CostnerAmerican actor
- Catherine, Princess of WalesMember of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
David’s cards
Computed from March 29, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5232332 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Cheriton.
Quick answers about David Cheriton’s chart
- How old is David Cheriton?
- David Cheriton is 75 years old, born March 29, 1951 in Vancouver, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is David Cheriton?
- David Cheriton is an Aries: born March 29, 1951, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is David Cheriton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1951 birth.
- What is David Cheriton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Cheriton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Cheriton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Cheriton's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
