David Gerrold
David Gerrold (born January 24, 1944, Chicago, United States), aged 82, is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist. Gerrold's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Edward E. Smith Memorial Award and Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
David Gerrold’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with David
David Gerrold’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire 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
David ranked 6th among boys and 763rd among girls in 1944, the year of this birth, with 37,382 American boys and 100 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Gerrold took the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award in 1979, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: Van Nuys High School and Los Angeles Valley College.
The working life starts in 1966, at 22.
Wikipedia's editors put David Gerrold under Los Angeles Valley College people, Television writers from California and Grant High School (Los Angeles) alumni.
Michio Kaku (1947) and Sharon Tate (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles Valley College and California State University, Northridge
- Awards
- Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1979), Nebula Award for Best Novelette (1995) and Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1995)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and Locus Award for Best Original Anthology
- Working from
- 1966
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with David and watch them fall for you again.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. 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: 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. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Gerrold
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Menkib, in Perseus, 81.8° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · No Water planets
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 Gerrold at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
David Gerrold's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 24, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
David Gerrold was born on January 24, 1944, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
David Gerrold's birth date, January 24, 1944, 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 Gerrold's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- David Gerrold combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Capricorn 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
David’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.8° to 2.1° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° orb
David’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.5° to 1.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.0° to 4.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 15°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°51′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 5°58′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Kite · Sun, Mars, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Sun, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.3°
More people like David
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Born in United States
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Born in Goat years
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- Rupert MurdochAmerican businessman
Also born on January 24
- Michio Kaku1947
- Sharon Tate1943
- Justin Baldoni1984
- Frankie Grande1983
- Tatyana Ali1979
- Mischa Barton1986
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Dan O'BannonAmerican film director, screenwriter, actor
- Joe ShusterCanadian-American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman
- David J. EagleAmerican television director
Other Aquarius Goat charts
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- Joe PesciAmerican actor
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
- William TellAmerican rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
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- Virginia CherrillAmerican actress
- Anthony DanielsEnglish actor and mime artist (born 1946)
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Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
David’s cards
Computed from January 24, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1174539 (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.
Portrait by Mike Muegel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Gerrold at Wikipedia, gerrold.com, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Gerrold.
Quick answers about David Gerrold’s chart
- How old is David Gerrold?
- David Gerrold is 82 years old, born January 24, 1944 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Gerrold?
- David Gerrold is an Aquarius: born January 24, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is David Gerrold's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1944 birth.
- What is David Gerrold's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Gerrold's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Gerrold's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Gerrold's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
