David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (born October 1, 1920, Goodman, United States; died 2009), was an American historian of the American Civil War. Donald's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Lincoln Prize and Bruce Catton Prize.
David Herbert Donald’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with David
David Herbert Donald’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
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) × cardinal 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 25th among boys and 1,382nd among girls in 1920, the year of this birth, with 7,444 American boys and 33 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as 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
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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
David Herbert Donald took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1961, at 41.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UIUC College of Media.
The grave is at Lincoln Cemetery.
The family line: married Aida DiPace Donald.
Wikipedia's editors put David Herbert Donald under People from Lincoln, Massachusetts, Lincoln Prize winners and Harvard University Department of History faculty.
Julie Andrews (1935) and George Weah (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UIUC College of Media
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1961), Bruce Catton Prize (2006) and Lincoln Prize (1996)
- Buried at
- Lincoln Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of David is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with David even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. David has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 Herbert Donald
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Goodman 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 Goodman that night
Computed for 32.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Goodman was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 89.3° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Goodman at all: they sit past the −57.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 29° below the horizon, Moon down and 81% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Goodman, United States
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Herbert Donald: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Grand trine
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
David Herbert Donald's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
David Herbert Donald was born on October 1, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
David Herbert Donald's birth date, October 1, 1920, 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 Herbert Donald's date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- David Herbert Donald combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
David’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquarePluto0.2° to 1.2° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.7° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.9° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 18.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.5° to 5.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 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 ℞Aries 8°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 5°40′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 15°43′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.5°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.3°
- Ceres square Sun 2.5°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.5°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
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.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 2.0°
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Also born on October 1
- Julie Andrews1935
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
David’s cards
Computed from October 1, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5234936 (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 White House photo by Paul Morse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Herbert Donald at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Herbert Donald.
Quick answers about David Herbert Donald’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Herbert Donald?
- David Herbert Donald was a Libra: born October 1, 1920, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was David Herbert Donald's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1920 birth.
- What was David Herbert Donald's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Herbert Donald's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Herbert Donald's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Herbert Donald's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
