David E. Hoffman
David E. Hoffman (born November 14, 1953, Palo Alto, United States), aged 72, is an American journalist. Hoffman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
David E. Hoffman’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with David
David E. Hoffman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1953, David came 5th among boys and 748th among girls, carried by 76,119 American boys and 149 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets David apart
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) 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 does not do surface. The core of David is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from David is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with David even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. David creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: David is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. David is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. David fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 E. Hoffman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto that night
Computed for 37.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Palo Alto at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 8.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 60% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
David E. Hoffman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
David E. Hoffman was born on November 14, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
David E. Hoffman's birth date, November 14, 1953, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David E. Hoffman's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- David E. Hoffman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.4° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
David’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.2° to 0.4° orb
David’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineUranus0.3° to 1.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 1.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto2.4° to 3.8° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°53′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 8°13′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 0°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 6°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.4°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
David’s cards
Computed from November 14, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5233182 (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 E. Hoffman at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David E. Hoffman.
Quick answers about David E. Hoffman’s chart
- How old is David E. Hoffman?
- David E. Hoffman is 72 years old, born November 14, 1953 in Palo Alto, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David E. Hoffman?
- David E. Hoffman is a Scorpio: born November 14, 1953, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is David E. Hoffman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1953 birth.
- What is David E. Hoffman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is David E. Hoffman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David E. Hoffman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David E. Hoffman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
