David S. Broder
David S. Broder (born September 11, 1929, Chicago Heights, United States; died 2011), was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Broder's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award and honorary doctor of the University of Miami.
David S. Broder’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with David
David S. Broder’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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
In 1929, 11,302 American boys and 73 girls were registered David — 17th among boys and 832nd 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary came in 1973, when David S. Broder was 44.
Study took David S. Broder to Bloom High School and University of Chicago.
Cause of death is recorded as diabetes.
On Wikipedia the categories read Bloom High School alumni, Deaths from diabetes in the United States and Writers from Bloomington, Illinois.
Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bloom High School and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1973), Carey McWilliams Award (1983) and honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1999)
- Cause of death
- diabetes
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Egyptian
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of David is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore David openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. David is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. David fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 S. Broder
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago Heights 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 Heights that night
Computed for 41.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago Heights at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Chicago Heights sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago Heights on any night.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon up and 61% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago Heights, United States
The death is recorded at Arlington County, Virginia in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David S. Broder: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
David S. Broder's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
David S. Broder was born on September 11, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
David S. Broder's birth date, September 11, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David S. Broder's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- David S. Broder combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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 0.8° orb
David’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
David’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.3° orb
David’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.7° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.4° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 26°43′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 13°02′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.8°
- Chiron square Venus 0.9°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 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.
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.7°
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- Taraji P. Henson1970
- Julia Nickson-Soul1958
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
David’s cards
Computed from September 11, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q166604 (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 Earl McDonald, NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David S. Broder at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David S. Broder.
Quick answers about David S. Broder’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David S. Broder?
- David S. Broder was a Virgo: born September 11, 1929, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was David S. Broder's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1929 birth.
- What was David S. Broder's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was David S. Broder's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David S. Broder's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David S. Broder's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
