David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935, Baltimore, United States), aged 90, is an American historian (born 1935). Fischer is best known for Washington's Crossing and Albion's Seed. Fischer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Irving Kristol Award.
David Hackett Fischer’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with David
David Hackett Fischer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 11th among boys and 894th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 15,663 American boys and 60 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.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4).
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
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The record
What sets David apart
Britney Spears (1981) and Lucy Liu (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of David is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. David gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. David is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Hackett Fischer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baltimore on any night.
The Moon, 48% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Venus · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
David Hackett Fischer's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 2, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
David Hackett Fischer was born on December 2, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
David Hackett Fischer's birth date, December 2, 1935, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Hackett Fischer's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Hackett Fischer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
David’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.0° orb
David’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.6° to 2.1° orb
David’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.0° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.2° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 13°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 29°32′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 1°26′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 0°08′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 3.0°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
More people like David
Other historians
- Rhys Isaac1937
- Robert V. Bruce1923
- Eric Foner1943
- Leon Litwack1929
- Edmund Morris1940
- Harry Warner, Jr.1922
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Also born on December 2
- Britney Spears1981
- Lucy Liu1968
- Charlie Puth1991
- Juice Wrld1998
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Carl DueringGerman actor
- Elizabeth McGovernAmerican actress
- Lee J. CobbAmerican actor
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
- Lynn FontanneBritish actress
- Fredrik AursnesNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
- Timothy CastagneBelgian association football player
- Alexander SørlothNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
Other Tidal Explorers
- Josh OliverAmerican football tight end
- Andrew Van GinkelAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Tyler SteenAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jihaad CampbellAmerican football player (born 2004)
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David’s cards
Computed from December 2, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5234590 (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.
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Quick answers about David Hackett Fischer’s chart
- How old is David Hackett Fischer?
- David Hackett Fischer is 90 years old, born December 2, 1935 in Baltimore, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Hackett Fischer?
- David Hackett Fischer is a Sagittarius: born December 2, 1935, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is David Hackett Fischer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 2, 1935 birth.
- What is David Hackett Fischer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Hackett Fischer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Hackett Fischer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Hackett Fischer's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
