David Filo
David Filo (born April 20, 1966, Wisconsin, United States), aged 60, is an American businessman.
David Filo’s zodiac sign is Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with David
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
The SSA recorded 66,408 American boys and 232 girls named David in 1966: 2nd among boys and 626th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Poppy
White · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, 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
David Filo was taught at Tulane University and Sam Houston High School.
The family line: married Angela Buenning Filo.
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Tulane University, Sam Houston High School and Stanford University
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with David, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. David is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of David leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means David is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from David's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Filo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin that night
Computed for 44.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Wisconsin at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Wisconsin sits at 44.5°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wisconsin, United States
- Lives in
- Palo Alto
Wikidata records Palo Alto as David Filo's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Filo: 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
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 Filo at a glance
Aries or Taurus Sun
David Filo was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
David Filo was born on April 20, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
David Filo's birth date, April 20, 1966, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Filo's date-only chart is Uranus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Aries or 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
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 7.0° orb
David’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.2° orb
David’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.0° to 2.1° orb
David’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileJupiterorb from 4.6° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°28′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°23′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 21°01′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros square Saturn 2.7°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
David’s cards
Computed from April 20, 1966. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q347886 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Filo.
Quick answers about David Filo’s chart
- How old is David Filo?
- David Filo is 60 years old, born April 20, 1966 in Wisconsin, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Filo?
- David Filo was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is David Filo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1966 birth.
- What is David Filo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Filo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Filo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Filo's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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