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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Ox, with 
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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
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
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for David Del Tredici, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
David’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.1° orb
David’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 3.8° orb
David’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto4.3° to 4.6° orb
David’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.3° to 4.5° orb
David’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
David’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineMars4.9° to 5.6° orb
David’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.7° to 5.9° orb
David’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has David turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAquarius 9°02′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. David is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°45′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. David is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°45′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. David is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. David is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 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°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: David is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 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 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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Del Tredici, 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 March 16, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for David Del Tredici, 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 Q560635, 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.
The same David Del Tredici at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- 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 time was David Del Tredici 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 was David Del Tredici's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the March 16, 1937 birth date.
- What was David Del Tredici's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 16, 1937 birth date.
- 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.
