David Lang
David Lang (born January 8, 1957, Los Angeles, United States), aged 69, is an American composer. Lang is best known for The Little Match Girl Passion. Lang's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
David Lang’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David Lang’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 82,403 American boys and 165 girls named David in 1957: 3rd among boys and 785th 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
2
Soul Urge · closeness
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
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
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets David apart
Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (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 is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of David is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, David runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What David needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with David and watch them fall for you again.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. David creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. David is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means David gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Lang
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
David Lang's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
David Lang was born on January 8, 1957, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
David Lang's birth date, January 8, 1957, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Lang's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- David Lang combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Aries 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
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 5.3° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.8° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.2° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 12°10′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 8°12′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.5°
- Eros square Saturn 1.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Uranus; 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 semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
David’s cards
Computed from January 8, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3018260 (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 Louisa Dedalus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Lang at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Lang.
Quick answers about David Lang’s chart
- How old is David Lang?
- David Lang is 69 years old, born January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Lang?
- David Lang is a Capricorn: born January 8, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is David Lang's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1957 birth.
- What is David Lang's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Lang's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Lang's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Lang's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
