David M. Potter
David M. Potter (born December 6, 1910, Augusta, United States; died 1971), was an American historian. Potter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.
David M. Potter’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with David
David M. Potter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
In 1910, 1,258 American boys and 9 girls were registered David — 30th among boys and 1,660th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 History came in 1977, when David M. Potter was 67.
The schooling ran through Yale University and Academy of Richmond County.
On Wikipedia the categories read Historians from Georgia (U.S. state), Academy of Richmond County alumni and Writers from Augusta, Georgia.
Geoffrey Hinton (1947) and Tim Cahill (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University and Academy of Richmond County
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1977)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of David is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, David needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What David needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. David creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: David is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. David is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means David runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 M. Potter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Augusta 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 Augusta that night
Computed for 33.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Augusta was Mirach, in Andromeda, 84.1° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Augusta sits at 33.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Augusta at all: they sit past the −56.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 24% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Augusta, United States
The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 1971.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David M. Potter: 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
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
David M. Potter's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
David M. Potter was born on December 6, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
David M. Potter's birth date, December 6, 1910, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David M. Potter's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- David M. Potter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Aquarius 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
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
David’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.3° to 1.0° orb
David’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.9° orb
David’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileUranus2.2° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.7° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.5° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.9° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 3.5° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 9°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°05′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°26′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.1°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on December 6
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- Tim Cahill1979
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
David’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q526331 (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 M. Potter 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 M. Potter.
Quick answers about David M. Potter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David M. Potter?
- David M. Potter was a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1910, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was David M. Potter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1910 birth.
- What was David M. Potter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was David M. Potter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David M. Potter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David M. Potter's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
