David G. McCullough
David G. McCullough (born July 7, 1933, Pittsburgh, United States; died 2022), was a Historian. McCullough is best remembered for Truman, The Path Between the Seas and John Adams. McCullough's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Book Award.
David G. McCullough’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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David G. McCullough’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
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What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David feels the room before entering it. The core of David is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for David, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, David is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What David needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. David builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: David is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: 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.
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
David G. McCullough's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 7, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
David G. McCullough was born on July 7, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
David G. McCullough's birth date, July 7, 1933, 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 G. McCullough's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 3°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- David G. McCullough combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David G. McCullough, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Capricorn 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.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.9° orb
David’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquarePluto4.4° orb
David’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.5° to 5.2° orb
David’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
David’s growth opens doors for their depths.
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 1.9° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 2.2° to 17.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileMarsorb from 4.9° to 5.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 5.7° to 20.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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 2°02′ (moves 0.06° 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.
⚳ CeresAries 17°34′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: David looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 1°17′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. David is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°20′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has David carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of David that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros square Mars 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.6°
- Ceres square Sun 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 3.0°
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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: David is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quincunx Saturn 0.0°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David G. McCullough, 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 July 7, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David G. McCullough, 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 Q374610, 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 Nrbelex at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David G. McCullough at Wikipedia, simonandschusterpublishing.com, 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.
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Quick answers about David G. McCullough’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David G. McCullough?
- David G. McCullough was a Cancer: born July 7, 1933, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was David G. McCullough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 7, 1933 birth.
- What time was David G. McCullough 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 G. McCullough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 7, 1933 birth date.
- What was David G. McCullough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 7, 1933 birth date.
- Where was David G. McCullough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David G. McCullough's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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