David Portnoy
David Portnoy (born March 22, 1977, Swampscott, United States), aged 49, is an American internet entrepreneur and celebrity.
David Portnoy’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David Portnoy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
Of the names registered in 1977, David came 4th among boys and 647th among girls, carried by 40,515 American boys and 252 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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 classrooms behind this chart: Swampscott and University of Michigan.
Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Swampscott and University of Michigan
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of David is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. David creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. David is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; David slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 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 Portnoy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Swampscott 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 Swampscott that night
Computed for 42.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Swampscott was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 84.4° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Swampscott on any night.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon up and 10% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Saturn · Five planets 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
David Portnoy's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
David Portnoy was born on March 22, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
David Portnoy's birth date, March 22, 1977, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Portnoy's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- David Portnoy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.8° to 2.9° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.9° orb
David’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.8° orb
David’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.7° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.3° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironAries 29°40′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 4°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°45′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 11°25′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros square Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Sun 2.6°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Aries · 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
More people like David
Born in United States
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- Rob McElhenneyAmerican actor and producer
- Kerry WashingtonAmerican actress
- Jason OppenheimAmerican real estate broker, attorney, influencer and reality TV personality
- Maitland WardAmerican actress and model
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Fellow Aries suns
- Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer (born 1991)
- Julia StilesAmerican actress
- Jenny SlateAmerican actress and comedian (born 1982)
Born in Snake years
- Daniel RadcliffeEnglish actor and film producer
- Robert Downey Jr.American actor
- Heinrich HertzGerman physicist
Also born on March 22
- Reese Witherspoon1976
- William Shatner1931
- Nick Robinson1995
- Fatih Birol1958
- Tyler Oakley1989
- Tony Elumelu1963
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Richard FeynmanAmerican theoretical physicist
- Rafael NadalSpanish tennis player
- Elizabeth TaylorBritish-American actress
Other Aries Snake charts
- Matty HealyEnglish musician
- Ayesha CurryCanadian actress
- Vegetta777Spanish YouTuber and influencer
- GronkhGerman YouTuber and video game designer
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Jordan PeeleAmerican actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Akio MoritaJapanese businessman
- Ansel ElgortAmerican actor, singer, DJ and record producer
- Ice SpiceAmerican rapper
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Dan ShechtmanIsraeli scientist
- Feodor LynenGerman biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- Adolf von BaeyerGerman chemist
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
David’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16734645 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Portnoy.
Quick answers about David Portnoy’s chart
- How old is David Portnoy?
- David Portnoy is 49 years old, born March 22, 1977 in Swampscott, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Portnoy?
- David Portnoy is an Aries: born March 22, 1977, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is David Portnoy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1977 birth.
- What is David Portnoy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Portnoy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Portnoy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Portnoy's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; 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.
