David Lean
David Lean (born March 25, 1908, Croydon, United Kingdom; died 1991), was a British filmmaker and editor. Lean is best remembered for Brief Encounter, Doctor Zhivago and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Lean's honours include Golden Bear, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Director.
David Lean’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with David
David Lean’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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 1,015 American boys named David in 1908: 30th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
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
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets David apart
Elton John (1947) and Aretha Franklin (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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of David is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once David is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. David is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of David leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means David is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Lean
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Croydon 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 Croydon that night
Computed for 51.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Croydon was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 85.8° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 51.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Croydon at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 46% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl · 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 →David Lean at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
David Lean's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 25, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
David Lean was born on March 25, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
David Lean's birth date, March 25, 1908, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Lean's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Lean combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.7° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableVenustrineUranus0.2° to 1.4° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb
David’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.9° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 1.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 21°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 12°25′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°41′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°32′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.1°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.7°
More people like David
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- Peggy Simson Currywriter from the US
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Fellow Aries suns
- Dean AchesonAmerican statesman and lawyer
- Leonard LevyAmerican historian
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Born in Monkey years
- Isack HadjarFrench-Algerian racing driver
- Gabriel BortoletoBrazilian racing driver
- Dafne KeenSpanish-British actress (born 2005)
Also born on March 25
- Elton John1947
- Aretha Franklin1942
- Sarah Jessica Parker1965
- Mikey Madison1999
- Lee Pace1979
- Big Sean1988
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jedrick WillsAmerican football offensive tackle
- Reid FergusonAmerican football player from the United States
- Uchenna NwosuAmerican football outside linebacker
Other Aries Monkey charts
- Eric RobertsAmerican actor (born 1956)
- Bijou PhillipsAmerican actress (born 1980)
- Amira WillighagenDutch-South African singer
- Anna ShcherbakovaRussian figure skater (born 2004)
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Andy GarciaAmerican actor and director (born 1956)
- Tracy AndersonAmerican fitness trainer and author
- Anne BurrellAmerican television chef
- Robert CarradineAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Garrett WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2001)
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- Kayode AwosikaAmerican football player (born 1998)
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
David’s cards
Computed from March 25, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55260 (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 Kalervo Manninen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Lean at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Lean.
Quick answers about David Lean’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Lean?
- David Lean was an Aries: born March 25, 1908, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was David Lean's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 25, 1908 birth.
- How tall was David Lean?
- David Lean was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was David Lean's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Lean's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Lean's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Lean's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
