David Leonhardt
David Leonhardt (born January 1, 1973, Manhattan, United States), aged 53, is an American journalist. Leonhardt's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and Gerald Loeb Award.
David Leonhardt’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David Leonhardt’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire 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 41,082 American boys and 226 girls named David in 1973: 5th among boys and 658th 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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Gerald Loeb Award came in 2009, when David Leonhardt was 36.
David Leonhardt was taught at Jonathan Edwards College and Horace Mann School.
Wikipedia files David Leonhardt under Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines, American economics writers and Horace Mann School alumni.
Phoebe Philo shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Jonathan Edwards College, Horace Mann School and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (2011) and Gerald Loeb Award (2009)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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 is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What David needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. David creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: David is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. David has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Leonhardt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Water planets
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
David Leonhardt's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
David Leonhardt was born on January 1, 1973, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
David Leonhardt's birth date, January 1, 1973, 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 Leonhardt's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Leonhardt combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 14° Sagittarius 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
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.5° to 2.8° orb
David’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 3.6° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.4° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 2.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 3.2° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 12°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 23°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 22°13′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°47′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.4°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Mercury, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
Born the same day as David
Phoebe Philo was born on January 1, 1973 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Manhattan, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like David
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- N. K. Jemisin1972
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Born in United States
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- Brandi GlanvilleAmerican television personality
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Fellow Capricorn suns
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Born in Rat years
- Sofía VergaraColombian-American actress and model
- Olivia WildeAmerican actress and film director
- Carlos TevezArgentine association football player
Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Hailey ClausonAmerican model
- Hyram YarbroAmerican skincare influencer
- Charlotte LawrenceAmerican singer
Other Capricorn Rat charts
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Other Radiant Pioneers
- Justin HerbertAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Gary SiniseAmerican actor
- Angus MacfadyenScottish actor
- Mark Boone JuniorAmerican actor (born 1955)
Famous people with Life Path 4
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David’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15452606 (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 New America, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Leonhardt at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Leonhardt.
Quick answers about David Leonhardt’s chart
- How old is David Leonhardt?
- David Leonhardt is 53 years old, born January 1, 1973 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Leonhardt?
- David Leonhardt is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1973, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is David Leonhardt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1973 birth.
- What is David Leonhardt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Leonhardt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Leonhardt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Leonhardt's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
