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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~3,689,613
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
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David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for David E. Hoffman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° 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.
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
David’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 1.7° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
David’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
David’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.4° to 3.8° orb
David’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. David is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°53′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has David caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosVirgo 8°13′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. David is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLeo 0°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has David at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 6°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of David that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 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°
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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: David is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David E. Hoffman, 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 November 14, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for David E. Hoffman, 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 Q5233182, 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 E. Hoffman at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- 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 time was David E. Hoffman 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 E. Hoffman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 14, 1953 birth date.
- What is David E. Hoffman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 14, 1953 birth date.
- 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.
