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David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy (born July 22, 1941, Seattle, United States), aged 85, is an American historian. Kennedy has served as professor emeritus. Kennedy's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.

David M. Kennedy’s zodiac sign is Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, 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

In 1941, 30,553 American boys and 94 girls were registered David — 7th among boys and 730th 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.

5

Expression · versatility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

3

Personality · bright, quick

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 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

—

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Bancroft Prize came in 1971, when David M. Kennedy was 30.

Study took David M. Kennedy to Yale University and Stanford University.

Vaughn Bodē 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
Yale University and Stanford University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (2000), Guggenheim Fellowship (1975) and Bancroft Prize (1971)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
10

What the chart says

David, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, David is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What David needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How David wants to be loved

David wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore David openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How David creates

How David makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. David creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: David is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means David gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from David's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

David’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 15.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Seattle that night

Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Seattle at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 47.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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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David M. Kennedy in 15 seconds

Cancer or Leo Sun

David M. Kennedy was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

David M. Kennedy was born on July 22, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

David M. Kennedy's birth date, July 22, 1941, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.9° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.2° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Cancer · 29°35′☉29°Moon in Cancer · 11°54′☽11°Mercury in Cancer · 9°49′☿9°Venus in Leo · 24°44′♀24°Mars in Aries · 11°03′♂11°Jupiter in Gemini · 12°37′♃12°Saturn in Taurus · 26°26′♄26°Uranus in Taurus · 29°32′♅29°Neptune in Virgo · 25°29′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 3°47′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb

    David’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 7.0° orb

    David’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

    David’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.4° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus4.2° to 5.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 4°07′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°01′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 22°14′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°47′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.4°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.6°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 2.0°

Born the same day as David

Vaughn Bodē was born on July 22, 1941 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Seattle, at 47.6°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

David’s cards

Computed from July 22, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204166 (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 Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David M. Kennedy at Wikipedia and profiles.stanford.edu.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David M. Kennedy.

Quick answers about David M. Kennedy’s chart

How old is David M. Kennedy?
David M. Kennedy is 85 years old, born July 22, 1941 in Seattle, United States.
What zodiac sign is David M. Kennedy?
David M. Kennedy was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is David M. Kennedy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1941 birth.
What is David M. Kennedy's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is David M. Kennedy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David M. Kennedy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David M. Kennedy's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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