David Leeson
David Leeson (born October 18, 1957, Abilene, United States; died 2022), was an American war photographer and photojournalist. Leeson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
David Leeson’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with David
David Leeson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
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 1957, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography came in 2004, when David Leeson was 47.
The schooling ran through Abilene Christian University.
Wikipedia files David Leeson under People from Abilene, Texas, Abilene Christian University alumni and The Dallas Morning News people.
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Abilene Christian University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (2004)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of David is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. David creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: David is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. David is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. David fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Leeson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Abilene 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 Abilene that night
Computed for 32.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Abilene was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 84.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
Abilene sits at 32.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Abilene on any night.
The Moon, 23% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Abilene, United States
The death is recorded at Abilene, Taylor County in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Leeson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
David Leeson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
David Leeson was born on October 18, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
David Leeson's birth date, October 18, 1957, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Leeson's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- David Leeson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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
stableSaturntrineUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
David’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb
David’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.8° to 1.2° orb
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 7.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°16′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 24°44′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°22′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 11°13′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.4°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.8°
More people like David
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Born in United States
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- Walter HoodAmerican architect
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More charts like David’s
Fellow Libra suns
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Born in Rooster years
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- Nayib BukelePresident of El Salvador since 2019
Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Ne-Yo1979
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Bristol Palin1990
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Emilia FoxBritish actress and presenter (born 1974)
- Ben KingsleyEnglish actor (born 1943)
- Lee Van CleefAmerican actor
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- Aidan O'BrienIrish Thoroughbred trainer
- Johan ManzambiSwiss footballer
- Christian, Crown Prince of Denmarkeldest child of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary
Other Tidal Pioneers
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
David’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5236459 (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.
The same David Leeson 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 Leeson.
Quick answers about David Leeson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Leeson?
- David Leeson was a Libra: born October 18, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was David Leeson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1957 birth.
- What was David Leeson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Leeson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Leeson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Leeson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
