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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Pig, with 
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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
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
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 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 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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for David Hackett Fischer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
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
David’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
David’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.2° orb
David’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenussquarePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb
David’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 4.5° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.7° orb
David’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableUranussquarePluto5.0° orb
David’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus5.2° to 6.0° orb
David’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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 ℞Gemini 13°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has David turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLibra 29°32′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. David is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosPisces 1°26′ (moves 0.49° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 0°08′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. David is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has David exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: David is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Hackett Fischer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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- Eric Foner1943
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- Edmund Morris1940
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David’s cards
Every card is computed from December 2, 1935, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for David Hackett Fischer, 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 Q5234590, 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 Hackett Fischer at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
- 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 time was David Hackett Fischer 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 Hackett Fischer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 2, 1935 birth date.
- What is David Hackett Fischer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 2, 1935 birth date.
- 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.
