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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with David
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
In 1941, 30,553 American boys and 94 girls were registered David — 7th among boys and 730th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against 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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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
The Sakurai Prize came in 1986, when David Gross was 45.
David Gross was taught at Hebrew University Secondary School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The family line: born to Bertram Myron Gross.
On Wikipedia the categories read Hebrew University Secondary School alumni, Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin and American string theorists.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hebrew University Secondary School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2004), Sakurai Prize (1986) and MacArthur Fellows Program (1987)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 78
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. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Gross
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.3° above the horizon in Gemini.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.1° 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, 36% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Sagittarius 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
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
stableMarssquareNeptune3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.7° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 7.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°25′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 19°31′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 10°48′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
David’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in David’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
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David’s cards
Computed from February 19, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40262 (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 LANL, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Gross at Wikipedia, kitp.ucsb.edu and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is David Gross's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Gross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
