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David J. Eagle

David J. Eagle (born January 31, 1954, Staten Island, United States), aged 72, is an American television director. Eagle's honours include Emmy Award and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

David J. Eagle’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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David J. Eagle’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 5th among boys and 748th among girls in 1954, the year of this birth, with 79,556 American boys and 153 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.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

6 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 J. Eagle took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1997, at 43.

Wikipedia's editors put David J. Eagle under Hugo Award winners, Primetime Emmy Award winners and American television directors.

Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1997)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

David, according to the stars

Core essence

David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. David creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. David is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means David runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
David

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
David

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
David

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to David J. Eagle

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Staten Island 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 Staten Island that night

Computed for 40.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Staten Island was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.3° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Staten Island on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 8% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mars · No Earth planets

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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David J. Eagle in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

David J. Eagle's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

David J. Eagle was born on January 31, 1954, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

David J. Eagle's birth date, January 31, 1954, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.8° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.6° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°18′☉11°Moon in Capricorn · 3°36′☽3°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°07′☿23°Venus in Aquarius · 11°42′♀11°Mars in Scorpio · 24°52′♂24°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°34′ · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°07′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 20°13′ · retrograde♅℞20°Neptune in Libra · 26°03′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Leo · 24°06′ · retrograde♇℞24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.1° to 1.9° orb

    David’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.3° to 0.5° orb

    David’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.5° to 1.1° orb

    David’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn1.7° to 2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.3° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 23°48′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 12°57′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 14°46′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 20°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 15°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Sun 1.6°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.3°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn 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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.5°

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

David’s cards

Computed from January 31, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5235416 (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.

The same David J. Eagle at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Quick answers about David J. Eagle’s chart

How old is David J. Eagle?
David J. Eagle is 72 years old, born January 31, 1954 in Staten Island, United States.
What zodiac sign is David J. Eagle?
David J. Eagle is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1954, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is David J. Eagle's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1954 birth.
What is David J. Eagle's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is David J. Eagle's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David J. Eagle's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David J. Eagle's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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