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David Julius

David Julius (born November 4, 1955, Brighton Beach, United States), aged 71, is an American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021. Julius's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Rosenstiel Award.

David Julius’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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David Julius’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

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) × fixed 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

The SSA recorded 86,306 American boys and 148 girls named David in 1955: 2nd among boys and 791st among girls for the year.

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).

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 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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

The W. Alden Spencer Award came in 2007, when David Julius was 52.

David Julius was taught at Abraham Lincoln High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Julius was married Holly Ingraham.

Wikipedia files David Julius under Kavli Prize laureates in Neuroscience, Columbia University staff and University of California, San Francisco faculty.

Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Abraham Lincoln High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2021), Canada Gairdner International Award (2017) and Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2013)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
53

What the chart says

David, according to the stars

Core essence

David does not do surface. The core of David is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from David is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, David is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What David needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. David creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: David is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. David fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

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

PrivateExpressive
David

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

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.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brighton Beach on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

David’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 78.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 34.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brighton Beach that night

Computed for 40.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Brighton Beach at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.2° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Brighton Beach sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brighton Beach at all: they sit past the −49.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 70% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

David Julius's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

David Julius was born on November 4, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

David Julius's birth date, November 4, 1955, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 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 5° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 11°30′☉11°Moon in Cancer · 12°35′☽12°Mercury in Libra · 24°39′☿24°Venus in Scorpio · 28°17′♀28°Mars in Libra · 14°16′♂14°Jupiter in Leo · 28°38′♃28°Saturn in Scorpio · 22°21′♄22°Uranus in Leo · 2°20′♅2°Neptune in Libra · 28°29′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 28°26′♇28°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb

    David’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

    David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.4° to 4.7° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 0°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 21°38′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 12°18′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°09′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.8°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars quintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.0°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 1.1°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

David’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1174906 (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 Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Julius 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 Julius.

Quick answers about David Julius’s chart

How old is David Julius?
David Julius is 71 years old, born November 4, 1955 in Brighton Beach, United States.
What zodiac sign is David Julius?
David Julius is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1955, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is David Julius's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1955 birth.
What is David Julius's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is David Julius's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David Julius's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David Julius's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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