David J. Wineland
David J. Wineland (born February 24, 1944, Wauwatosa, United States), aged 82, is an American physicist. Wineland's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fellow of the American Physical Society and Samuel Wesley Stratton Award.
David J. Wineland’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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David J. Wineland’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of David is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, David is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What David needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. David creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. David is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. David scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
David J. Wineland's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 24, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
David J. Wineland was born on February 24, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
David J. Wineland's birth date, February 24, 1944, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David J. Wineland's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David J. Wineland combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David J. Wineland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° 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.
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.8° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
David’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.0° to 2.6° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° orb
David’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.7° to 3.4° orb
David’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 3.3° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto2.1° orb
David’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.9° orb
David’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 4.7° orb
David’s drive and discipline act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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 ℞Virgo 13°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has David turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresGemini 25°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has David feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 5°08′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. David is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°53′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has David carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°44′ (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 trine Uranus 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.5°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Chiron square Mars 2.0°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: David is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Kite · Venus, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Sun · Neptune, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David J. Wineland, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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David’s cards
Every card is computed from February 24, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David J. Wineland, 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 Q61045, 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.
Portrait by NIST, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David J. Wineland at Wikipedia and cas.uoregon.edu.
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 J. Wineland’s chart
- How old is David J. Wineland?
- David J. Wineland is 82 years old, born February 24, 1944 in Wauwatosa, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David J. Wineland?
- David J. Wineland is a Pisces: born February 24, 1944, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- What is David J. Wineland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 24, 1944 birth.
- What time was David J. Wineland 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 J. Wineland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 24, 1944 birth date.
- What is David J. Wineland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 24, 1944 birth date.
- Where is David J. Wineland's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David J. Wineland's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
