
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), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
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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 · 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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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
Bright, restless, warm.
David Lee was born on January 20, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Built for the big table.
David Lee's birth date, January 20, 1931, 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 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
No documented birth time exists for David Lee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Aquarius 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.
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
David’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.3° to 2.5° orb
David’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 4.4° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
David’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° orb
David’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.7° to 5.2° orb
David’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
David’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.5° to 7.0° orb
David’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°00′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has David building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 13°42′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. David is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 6°13′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. David is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 4°23′ (moves 0.03° 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 LilithPisces 7°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. David is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: David is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Lee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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 January 20, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for David Lee, 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 Q201853, 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 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Lee at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was David Lee 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 Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1931 birth date.
- What is David Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1931 birth date.
- 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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