David Del Tredici
David Del Tredici (born March 16, 1937, Cloverdale, United States; died 2023), was an American composer. Tredici's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
David Del Tredici’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with David
David Del Tredici’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water 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
In 1937, 20,981 American boys and 70 girls were registered David — 8th among boys and 820th 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
11
Soul Urge · insight
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
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
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 1937, 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
The Arts and Letters Award in Music came in 1968, when David Del Tredici was 31.
The schooling ran through University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University.
David Del Tredici was 22 when the work began in 1959.
Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Cloverdale, California, Aspen Music Festival and School alumni and University at Buffalo faculty.
Mark Carney (1965) and Alexandra Daddario (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Arts and Letters Award in Music (1968) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1980)
- Working from
- 1959
- Cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
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.
The vibe
Underneath, David is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What David needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. David creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. David has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cloverdale 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 Cloverdale that night
Computed for 38.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cloverdale was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 79.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Cloverdale sits at 38.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Cloverdale at all: they sit past the −51.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 25% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cloverdale, United States
- Lived in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as David Del Tredici's home, against Cloverdale as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Del Tredici: 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
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · Grand trine · 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.
Score your own chart →David Del Tredici at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
David Del Tredici's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
David Del Tredici was born on March 16, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
David Del Tredici's birth date, March 16, 1937, 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 Del Tredici's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Del Tredici combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Taurus 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.5° orb
David’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 1.0° orb
David’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrinePluto0.3° to 1.3° orb
David’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.1° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.7° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 9°02′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°45′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°45′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mercury 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.5°
More people like David
Other composers
- Jerry Herman1931
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Mario Davidovsky1934
- John Corigliano1938
- Ray Charles1930
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich1939
Born in United States
- Grace BumbryAmerican opera singer
- Lanford WilsonAmerican playwright
- Robert D. McFaddenAmerican journalist
- Robert CampbellAmerican architect and writer
- Frederic ForrestAmerican actor
- Jack NicholsonAmerican actor and filmmaker
More charts like David’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Alan M. KriegsmanAmerican dance critic
- Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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Born in Ox years
- Edmund GwennBritish actor
- Linda LavinAmerican actress and singer
- Hugh O'BrianAmerican actor and United States Marine
Also born on March 16
- Mark Carney1965
- Alexandra Daddario1986
- Alexander McQueen1969
- Lauren Graham1967
- Joel Embiid1994
- Jhené Aiko1988
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- George WillAmerican newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
- Walter PistonAmerican composer
- Thomas FriedmanAmerican journalist and author
Other Pisces Ox charts
- Joanna RussAmerican author
- David D. LevineAmerican science fiction writer
- Terry CarrAmerican writer and editor
- Edward L. FermanAmerican science fiction writer and editor
Other Tidal Healers
- Donald Arthur GlaserAmerican physicist and neurobiologist
- Larry DavidAmerican comedian, writer and actor
- Felipe MassaBrazilian race car driver
- Chris RockAmerican comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Walter GilbertAmerican biochemist
- Ludwig QuiddeGerman politician
- John FennAmerican analytical chemist
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
David’s cards
Computed from March 16, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q560635 (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.
The same David Del Tredici at Wikipedia, 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 Del Tredici.
Quick answers about David Del Tredici’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Del Tredici?
- David Del Tredici was a Pisces: born March 16, 1937, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was David Del Tredici's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1937 birth.
- What was David Del Tredici's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Del Tredici's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Del Tredici's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Del Tredici's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
