David J. Thouless
David J. Thouless (born September 21, 1934, Bearsden, United Kingdom; died 2019), was a British physicist. Thouless's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award and Holweck Prize.
David J. Thouless’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with David
David J. Thouless’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, 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
Of the names registered in 1934, David came 12th among boys and 776th among girls, carried by 14,003 American boys and 75 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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. Thouless took the Maxwell Medal and Prize in 1973, at 39.
The classrooms behind this chart: Trinity Hall and Clare Hall.
Cause of death is recorded as dementia.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for David J. Thouless: People from Bearsden, Physicists of the University of Birmingham and Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
The same date carries Leonard Cohen. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Trinity Hall, Clare Hall and Cornell University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2016), Fritz London Award (1984) and Holweck Prize (1980)
- Cause of death
- dementia
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 70
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of David is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with David and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. David creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: David is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. David is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means David fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 J. Thouless
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bearsden 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 Bearsden that night
Computed for 55.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bearsden was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 79.1° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 55.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bearsden at all: they sit past the −34.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bearsden, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David J. Thouless: 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
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
David J. Thouless's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
David J. Thouless was born on September 21, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
David J. Thouless's birth date, September 21, 1934, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David J. Thouless' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David J. Thouless combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° 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
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
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
David’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
David’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSunsextilePluto1.5° to 2.4° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.5° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.0° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 1.8° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 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 ℞Gemini 9°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 18°26′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°03′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.2°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron square Venus 2.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn 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 quintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.9°
Born the same day as David
Leonard Cohen was born on September 21, 1934 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 55.9°N, Bearsden keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on September 21
- Kwame Nkrumah1909
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David’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q726394 (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 Mary Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about David J. Thouless’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David J. Thouless?
- David J. Thouless was a Virgo: born September 21, 1934, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was David J. Thouless's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1934 birth.
- What was David J. Thouless's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was David J. Thouless's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David J. Thouless's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David J. Thouless's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
