David Newman
David Newman (born February 4, 1937, New York City, United States; died 2003), was an American screenwriter. Newman's honours include Writers Guild of America Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.
David Newman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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David Newman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
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) × fixed 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
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David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. David creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: David is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. 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: 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
David Newman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
David Newman was born on February 4, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
David Newman's birth date, February 4, 1937, 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
- The tightest major aspect in David Newman's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- David Newman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for David Newman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.1° to 0.9° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.6° to 0.9° orb
David’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.2° to 2.0° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
David’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
David’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.7° to 4.0° orb
David’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.6° orb
David’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 5.8° orb
David’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
David’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
David’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°57′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has David turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°08′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has David caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°29′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. David is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. David is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. David is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.6°
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. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: David is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 quintile Venus 0.3°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for David Newman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from February 4, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for David Newman, 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 Q4982515, 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.
The same David Newman at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Newman.
Quick answers about David Newman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Newman?
- David Newman was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was David Newman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1937 birth.
- What time was David Newman 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 was David Newman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 4, 1937 birth date.
- What was David Newman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 4, 1937 birth date.
- Where was David Newman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Newman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
