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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with David
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
Of the names registered in 1944, David came 6th among boys and 763rd among girls, carried by 37,382 American boys and 100 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
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
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
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 1944, 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. Wineland took the William F. Meggers Award in 1990, at 46.
Training came by way of Encina High School and University of California, Berkeley.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for David J. Wineland: American quantum information scientists, University of Oregon faculty and Scientists from Sacramento, California.
Steve Jobs (1955) and Brian Schmidt (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Encina High School, University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2012), National Medal of Science (2007) and Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2001)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
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.
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 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 J. Wineland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wauwatosa 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 Wauwatosa that night
Computed for 43.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wauwatosa at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Wauwatosa at all: they sit past the −46.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Sun · Grand trine · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.0° to 2.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.7° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 13°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 25°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 5°08′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°53′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
David’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in David’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
David’s cards
Computed from February 24, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q61045 (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 NIST, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David J. Wineland at Wikipedia and cas.uoregon.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David J. Wineland.
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.
- 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 is David J. Wineland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is David J. Wineland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
