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David Remnick

David Remnick (born October 29, 1958, Hackensack, United States), aged 68, is an American journalist, writer and editor (born 1958). Remnick is best known for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1st edition). Remnick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Medal of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas and George Polk Award.

David Remnick’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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David Remnick’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth 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

David ranked 2nd among boys and 694th among girls in 1958, the year of this birth, with 82,681 American boys and 204 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.

5

Expression · versatility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Crimson · Gold

The record

What sets David apart

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Winona Ryder (1971) 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 does not do surface. The core of David is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from David is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How David wants to be loved

David wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with David even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

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 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means David is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
David

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
David

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
David

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hackensack on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

David’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 31.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hackensack that night

Computed for 40.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Hackensack at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 96 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hackensack at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 95% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.

How unusual David's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Air planets · 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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David Remnick at a glance

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

David Remnick's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

David Remnick was born on October 29, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

David Remnick's birth date, October 29, 1958, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°46′☉5°Moon in Taurus · 28°06′☽28°Mercury in Scorpio · 20°40′☿20°Venus in Scorpio · 2°32′♀2°Mars in Taurus · 29°49′ · retrograde♂℞29°Jupiter in Scorpio · 10°44′♃10°Saturn in Sagittarius · 22°26′♄22°Uranus in Leo · 16°07′♅16°Neptune in Scorpio · 4°34′♆4°Pluto in Virgo · 3°52′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.8° orb

    David’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb

    David’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb

    David’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.6° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 17°39′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 13°46′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 13°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.3°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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-square Saturn 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°

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David’s cards

Computed from October 29, 1958. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1176307 (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 Sizzlipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Remnick 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 Remnick.

Quick answers about David Remnick’s chart

How old is David Remnick?
David Remnick is 68 years old, born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, United States.
What zodiac sign is David Remnick?
David Remnick is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1958, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is David Remnick's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1958 birth.
What is David Remnick's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is David Remnick's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David Remnick's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David Remnick's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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