David Lee
David Lee (born January 20, 1931, Rye, United States), aged 95, is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Lee's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Wilbur Cross Medal.
David Lee’s zodiac sign is Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with David
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
In 1931, 11,784 American boys and 56 girls were registered David — 13th among boys and 927th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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). 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
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1966, when David Lee was 35.
The schooling ran through Yale University and University of Connecticut.
On Wikipedia the categories read Texas A&M University faculty, University of Florida faculty and People from Rye, New York.
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University, University of Connecticut and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1996), Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981) and Wilbur Cross Medal (1998)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, David needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What David needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Lee
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rye 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 Rye that night
Computed for 40.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rye was Capella, in Auriga, 84.8° up.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Rye sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rye on any night.
The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
81 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 or Aquarius Sun
David Lee was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
David Lee was born on January 20, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
David Lee's birth date, January 20, 1931, 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 Lee's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.4° to 1.8° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb
David’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineUranus1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.5° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 2.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°00′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 13°42′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 6°13′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 4°23′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.9°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.6°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
David’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1931. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
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 Q201853 (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 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Lee 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 Lee.
Quick answers about David Lee’s chart
- How old is David Lee?
- David Lee is 95 years old, born January 20, 1931 in Rye, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Lee?
- David Lee was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is David Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1931 birth.
- What is David Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Lee's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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