David Kertzer
David Kertzer (born February 20, 1948, New York City, United States), aged 78, is an American historian and anthropologist. Kertzer is best known for The Pope and Mussolini. Kertzer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
David Kertzer’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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David Kertzer’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood 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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
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.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where David sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
David Kertzer's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1948, 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.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
David Kertzer was born on February 20, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
David Kertzer's birth date, February 20, 1948, 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 Kertzer's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- David Kertzer combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Kertzer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.2° to 2.3° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb
David’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.4° orb
David’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrinePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
David’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.6° to 3.4° orb
David’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionMars3.6° to 5.0° orb
David’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
David’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileUranus4.4° to 4.8° orb
David’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
David’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb
David’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°30′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has David carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°02′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. David is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 15°21′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. David is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 21°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has David needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has David at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron square Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.8°
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. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: David is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.0°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Kertzer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like David
Other historians
- Richard Rhodes1937
- Rhys Isaac1937
- John Howard1939
- Edmund Morris1940
- Taylor Armstrong1971
- Thomas K. McCraw1940
Born in United States
- Al GoreVice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)
- Richard DreyfussAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Jeanne RobinsonCanadian choreographer
- Timothy B. SchmitAmerican musician
- Dianne WiestAmerican actress
- Joe WalshAmerican rock musician
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Fellow Pisces suns
- Theodore SturgeonAmerican speculative fiction writer
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- Mike ResnickAmerican writer
Born in Rat years
- Jeremiah BrentAmerican designer
- Larry BirkheadAmerican photographer
- Abigail BreslinAmerican actress
Also born on February 20
- Kurt Cobain1967
- Mitch McConnell1942
- Cindy Crawford1966
- Trevor Noah1984
- Hubert de Givenchy1927
- Shepherd Bushiri1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jean BourgainBelgian mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Richard BorcherdsBritish-American mathematician (born 1959)
- Michel MayorSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
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- Bernadette PetersAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
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- Eddie SnyderAmerican composer and songwriter
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- Connor StorrieAmerican actor (born 2000)
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
David’s cards
Every card is computed from February 20, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Kertzer, 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 Q3018193, 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 Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Kertzer at Wikipedia, davidkertzer.com, IMDb and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Kertzer.
Quick answers about David Kertzer’s chart
- How old is David Kertzer?
- David Kertzer is 78 years old, born February 20, 1948 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Kertzer?
- David Kertzer is a Pisces: born February 20, 1948, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is David Kertzer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1948 birth.
- What time was David Kertzer 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 Kertzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1948 birth date.
- What is David Kertzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1948 birth date.
- Where is David Kertzer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Kertzer's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
