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), Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 2 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
Of the names registered in 1943, David came 6th among boys and 736th among girls, carried by 37,240 American boys and 110 girls.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
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
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 record
What sets David apart
Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.4° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 52% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all
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 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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° 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
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
stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb
stableVenustrineMars1.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 29°36′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 13°13′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 3°11′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 29°43′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°40′ (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 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°
David’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.7°
More people like David
Other screenwriters
- David Gerrold1944
- Roger Ebert1942
- Tim Rice1944
- Eric Idle1943
- Richard Ford1944
- Barry B. Longyear1942
Born in United States
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- Louise GlückU.S. poet and Nobel laureate
More charts like David’s
Born in Goat years
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Also born on July 23
- Haile Selassie I1892
- Daniel Radcliffe1989
- Philip Seymour Hoffman1967
- Woody Harrelson1961
- Vera Rubin1928
- Paul Wesley1982
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Edmund GwennBritish actor
- Joel GreyAmerican actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)
- Bert KaempfertGerman orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger and composer
Famous people with Life Path 2
- João PedroBrazilian association football player (born 2001)
- Rashid KhanAfghan cricketer
- Oliver BearmanBritish racing driver (born 2005)
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
David’s cards
Computed from July 23, 1943. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2396324 (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.
The same David Giler at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was David Giler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Giler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
