David Gross
David Gross (born February 19, 1941, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 85, is an American particle physicist and string theorist. Gross's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Harvey Prize and Sakurai Prize.
David Gross’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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David Gross’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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
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
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of David is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, David is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What David needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let David be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. David creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: David is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. David is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means David does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from David's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
David Gross's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 19, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
David Gross was born on February 19, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
David Gross's birth date, February 19, 1941, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Gross' date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Gross combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Gross, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Sagittarius 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.
stableSunsextileMars0.3° to 0.7° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
David’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.0° to 3.5° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 3.8° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
David’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.7° orb
David’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.7° to 6.8° orb
David’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 7.0° orb
David’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb
David’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 3.4° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. David is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°25′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. David is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 19°31′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. David is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 10°48′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has David feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has David carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: David is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Yod onto Pluto · Sun, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Gross, 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 February 19, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Gross, 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 Q40262, 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 LANL, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Gross at Wikipedia, kitp.ucsb.edu 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Gross.
Quick answers about David Gross’s chart
- How old is David Gross?
- David Gross is 85 years old, born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Gross?
- David Gross is a Pisces: born February 19, 1941, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is David Gross's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1941 birth.
- What time was David Gross 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 is David Gross's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 19, 1941 birth date.
- What is David Gross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 19, 1941 birth date.
- Where is David Gross's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Gross's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
