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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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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
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David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for David Leonhardt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 14° Sagittarius 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.
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
David’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.2° orb
David’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareUranus4.7° to 4.9° orb
David’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.2° orb
David’s core identity and growth act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 12°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: David may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 23°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. David is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosPisces 22°13′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. David is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°47′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. David is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has David leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: David is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 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 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Leonhardt, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as David
Phoebe Philo was born on January 1, 1973 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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David’s cards
Every card is computed from January 1, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for David Leonhardt, 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 Q15452606, 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 New America, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Leonhardt at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- 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 time was David Leonhardt 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 Leonhardt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 1, 1973 birth date.
- What is David Leonhardt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 1, 1973 birth date.
- 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.
