David Duchovny
David Duchovny (born August 7, 1960, New York City, United States), aged 66, is an American actor and writer. Duchovny is best known for The X-Files and Californication. Duchovny's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and CineMerit Award.
David Duchovny’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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David Duchovny’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, 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
22 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets David apart
Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) 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 is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of David is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore David openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. David creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. David is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. David scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from David's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where David sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 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.
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David Duchovny at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
David Duchovny's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
David Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, which falls in a Metal 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 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
David Duchovny's birth date, August 7, 1960, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Duchovny's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Duchovny combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Duchovny, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.9° orb
David’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
David’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.4° to 6.3° orb
David’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussquareMars5.5° to 6.1° orb
David’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.2° to 7.4° orb
David’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.8° to 8.0° orb
David’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.8° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°34′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has David absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 23°35′ (moves 0.22° 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.
♡ ErosGemini 1°47′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. David is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°04′ (moves 0.37° 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 LilithCancer 10°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has David guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.8°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.8°
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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: David is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Leo · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.1°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Duchovny, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
David’s family here
One relative of David Duchovny also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
David’s cards
Every card is computed from August 7, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Duchovny, 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 Q484365, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Duchovny at Wikipedia, davidduchovny.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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.
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Quick answers about David Duchovny’s chart
- How old is David Duchovny?
- David Duchovny is 66 years old, born August 7, 1960 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Duchovny?
- David Duchovny is a Leo: born August 7, 1960, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is David Duchovny's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1960 birth.
- What time was David Duchovny 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 Duchovny's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the August 7, 1960 birth date.
- What is David Duchovny's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 7, 1960 birth date.
- Where is David Duchovny's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Duchovny's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
