David D. Levine
David D. Levine (born February 21, 1961, Minneapolis, United States), aged 65, is an American science fiction writer. Levine's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
David D. Levine’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David D. Levine’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
In 1961, 84,810 American boys and 234 girls were registered David — 2nd among boys and 677th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
2
Soul Urge · closeness
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as 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
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets David apart
W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of David is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. David creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: David is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: 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.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 D. Levine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis that night
Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Minneapolis at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 45.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 48% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
David D. Levine's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
David D. Levine was born on February 21, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
David D. Levine's birth date, February 21, 1961, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David D. Levine's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- David D. Levine combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.5° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.3° orb
David’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.6° orb
David’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 0.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars1.1° to 1.9° orb
stableMercurytrineMars1.3° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.7° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.7° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°05′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 21°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 14°47′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 27°15′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.4°
More people like David
Other writers
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- Angelique Kidjo1960
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Born in United States
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More charts like David’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Diogo DalotPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Marcel SabitzerAustrian footballer
- Rúben NevesPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
Born in Ox years
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenyan writer
- Kate BeckinsaleEnglish actress
- LisaThai rapper, singer, model, dancer and actress
Also born on February 21
- W. H. Auden1907
- Alan Rickman1946
- Elliot Page1987
- Nina Simone1933
- Riyad Mahrez1991
- Sophie Turner1996
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Marisa BerensonAmerican actress and model (b. 1947)
- Kelly MacdonaldScottish actress
- Moira KellyAmerican actress (b. 1968)
Other Pisces Ox charts
- Leo EsakiJapanese physicist (1925-)
- Robert HuberGerman chemist (1937-)
- Moungi BawendiAmerican chemist of French and Tunisian descent
- David Del TrediciAmerican composer
Other Evergreen Explorers
- Roger DaltreyEnglish musician and lead vocalist of The Who
- Jule StyneBritish-born American songwriter
- Leontyne PriceAfrican-American soprano
- Romelu LukakuBelgian footballer (born 1993)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Morris ChangTaiwanese businessman and electrical engineer (born 1931)
- Mark KurtserRussian physician
- Vladimir BogdanovRussian businessman
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David’s cards
Computed from February 21, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5232778 (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 Hal O'Brien, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about David D. Levine’s chart
- How old is David D. Levine?
- David D. Levine is 65 years old, born February 21, 1961 in Minneapolis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David D. Levine?
- David D. Levine is a Pisces: born February 21, 1961, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is David D. Levine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1961 birth.
- What is David D. Levine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is David D. Levine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David D. Levine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David D. Levine's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
