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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with David
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
Of the names registered in 1948, David came 5th among boys and 783rd among girls, carried by 56,627 American boys and 121 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
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 · 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 record
What sets David apart
Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 81% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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 Kertzer's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableSunoppositionMars3.6° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.4° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.2° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 24°30′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°02′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°21′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 21°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
David’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in David’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.0°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.1°
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
More charts like David’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Theodore SturgeonAmerican speculative fiction writer
- Joanna RussAmerican author
- 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
Other Pisces Rat charts
- Dillon FreasierAmerican actor
- Mercedes RuehlAmerican actress
- Ursula AndressSwiss actress
- Bernadette PetersAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Mickey RooneyAmerican actor
- Phoebe Waller-BridgeEnglish actress, screenwriter and producer (born 1985)
- Eddie SnyderAmerican composer and songwriter
- James KelmanScottish writer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Connor StorrieAmerican actor (born 2000)
- Randy SpellingAmerican actor
- Jon VoightAmerican actor (born 1938)
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
David’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3018193 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is David Kertzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Kertzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
