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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), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

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 · 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

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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. 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

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for David M. Kennedy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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.

  • 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

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

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.4° to 1.7° orb

    David’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

    David’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.1° orb

    David’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb

    David’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.7° orb

    David’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

    David’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareUranus4.2° to 5.4° orb

    David’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has David performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

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

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. David is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

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

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. David is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. David is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. David is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • 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°

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. 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

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: David is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David M. Kennedy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as David

Vaughn Bodē was born on July 22, 1941 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 July 22, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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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

No birth time is on public record for David M. Kennedy, 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 Q204166, 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 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. 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 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. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
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 time was David M. Kennedy 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 M. Kennedy's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1941 birth date.
What is David M. Kennedy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1941 birth date.
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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