David Mumford
David Mumford (born June 11, 1937, Worth, United Kingdom), aged 89, is a British/American mathematician. Mumford is best known for Mumford-Shah Functional. Mumford's honours include Fields medal, Shaw Prize and MacArthur Fellows Program.
David Mumford’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with David
David Mumford’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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
David ranked 8th among boys and 820th among girls in 1937, the year of this birth, with 20,981 American boys and 70 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
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
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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 1937, 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 shelf David Mumford is read from: Mumford-Shah Functional.
Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University shaped the training.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put David Mumford under Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty, People from Worth, West Sussex and Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The same date carries Robin Warren. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Mumford-Shah Functional
- Educated at
- Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University
- Awards
- Fields medal (1974), Shaw Prize (2006) and National Medal of Science (2009)
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 40
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. David needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once David is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. David creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: David is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. David is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of David leads without needing to do it alone.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mumford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worth 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 Worth that night
Computed for 51.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mizar stood nearest the zenith over Worth at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.1°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 −38.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 12% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
David Mumford's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 11, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
David Mumford was born on June 11, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
David Mumford's birth date, June 11, 1937, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Mumford's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- David Mumford combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.3° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.5° orb
David’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars4.9° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 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: Earth leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°55′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°47′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 8°41′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 24°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
David’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 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.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
Born the same day as David
Robin Warren was born on June 11, 1937 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.1°N, Worth keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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Other Gemini Ox charts
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Other Steadfast Storytellers
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
David’s cards
Computed from June 11, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334021 (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.
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Quick answers about David Mumford’s chart
- How old is David Mumford?
- David Mumford is 89 years old, born June 11, 1937 in Worth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is David Mumford?
- David Mumford is a Gemini: born June 11, 1937, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is David Mumford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 11, 1937 birth.
- What is David Mumford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Mumford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Mumford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Mumford's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
