David Mamet
David Mamet (born November 30, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 78, is an American playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947). Mamet is best known for Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross. Mamet's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Hull-Warriner Award and PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award.
David Mamet’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with David
David Mamet’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1947, 57,810 American boys and 111 girls were registered David — 6th among boys and 833rd 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The record
What sets David apart
Winston Churchill (1874) and Ben Stiller (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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 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 creates
How David makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. David creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: David is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means David fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Mamet
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 SunRestless in a good way.
David Mamet's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
David Mamet was born on November 30, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
David Mamet's birth date, November 30, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Mamet's date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- David Mamet combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Cancer 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
stableVenustrineMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 0.9° orb
David’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.9° to 3.3° orb
David’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.5° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.6° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.9° to 7.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 17°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 25°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°09′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°22′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 3.0°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.3°
David’s family here
One relative of David Mamet also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like David
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- Jeffrey Boam1946
- James Lapine1949
- James V. Hart1947
- Agnieszka Holland1948
- Glenn Close1947
- Lewis Black1948
Born in United States
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- Bernadette PetersAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
- Jeff MacNellyAmerican editorial cartoonist
- David KertzerAmerican historian and anthropologist
- Marsha NormanAmerican playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
More charts like David’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Hassan HaskinsAmerican football running back
- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
- Michael OnwenuAmerican football guard
Born in Pig years
- Logan CookeAmerican football player
- Foyesade OluokunAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Durham SmytheAmerican football player (born 1995)
Also born on November 30
- Winston Churchill1874
- Ben Stiller1965
- Kaley Cuoco1985
- Billy Idol1955
- Tayari Jones1970
- Ian Hecox1987
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jon M. ChuAmerican filmmaker
- Mark RoberAmerican YouTuber, engineer and inventor
- Sara BlakelyAmerican businesswoman
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
- Amy LocaneAmerican actress
- Emma CorrinBritish actor (born 1995)
- Jana KramerAmerican singer and actress
- Aaron RodgersAmerican football player (born 1983)
Other Tidal Storytellers
- Raymond BurrCanadian actor
- Juliane KöhlerGerman actress
- Bert LahrAmerican actor
- Porter HallAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Paul NewmanAmerican actor
- Barbra StreisandAmerican singer and actress
- Whoopi GoldbergAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
David’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q269927 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Mamet at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Mamet.
Quick answers about David Mamet’s chart
- How old is David Mamet?
- David Mamet is 78 years old, born November 30, 1947 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Mamet?
- David Mamet is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1947, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is David Mamet's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1947 birth.
- What is David Mamet's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Mamet's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Mamet's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Mamet's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
