David Giler
David Giler (born July 23, 1943, New York City, United States; died 2020), was an American filmmaker. Giler's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
David Giler’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Water Goat, with 
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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
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with David and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. David creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 2 is the peacemaker. David is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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David Giler at a glance
Cancer or Leo Sun
David Giler was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
David Giler was born on July 23, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
David Giler's birth date, July 23, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Giler's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Giler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.4° orb
David’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 2.1° orb
David’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.5° to 2.5° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb
David’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineMars1.4° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
David’s growth and depths act as one.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.6° to 2.8° orb
David’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
David’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 5.2° orb
David’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
David’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
David’s core identity and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 29°36′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has David performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresGemini 13°13′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has David feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosVirgo 3°11′ (moves 0.88° 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 29°43′ (moves 0.36° 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 LilithLeo 6°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. David is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 conjunction Pluto 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres square Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: David is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Giler, 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 23, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Giler, 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 Q2396324, 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 Giler 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Giler.
Quick answers about David Giler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Giler?
- David Giler was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- What was David Giler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1943 birth.
- What time was David Giler 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 Giler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 23, 1943 birth date.
- What was David Giler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 23, 1943 birth date.
- Where was David Giler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Giler's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
