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David Schwimmer

David Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966, Flushing, United States), aged 60, is an American actor. Schwimmer is best known for Madagascar.

David Schwimmer’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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David Schwimmer’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood 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

Of the names registered in 1966, David came 2nd among boys and 626th among girls, carried by 66,408 American boys and 232 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What David’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

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

8 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets David apart

What keeps David Schwimmer in print: Madagascar.

The classrooms behind this chart: British American Drama Academy and Northwestern University School of Communication.

The working life starts in 1989, at 23.

David Schwimmer was married Zoë Buckman.

Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and Larry Fink (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Madagascar
Educated at
British American Drama Academy, Northwestern University School of Communication and Beverly Hills High School
Working from
1989
Wikipedia editions
70

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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. David creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: David is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means David channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to David Schwimmer

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Flushing 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 Flushing that night

Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Flushing was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 77.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Flushing on any night.

Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 79% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Flushing, United States
Lives in
East Village

Wikidata records East Village as David Schwimmer's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Schwimmer: 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

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Air planets

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 Schwimmer in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

David Schwimmer's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Horse

Happiest halfway there.

David Schwimmer was born on November 2, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

David Schwimmer's birth date, November 2, 1966, 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 23° to 6° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.5° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.6° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3° orbSun in Scorpio · 9°49′☉9°Moon in Gemini · 29°37′☽29°Mercury in Sagittarius · 2°11′☿2°Venus in Scorpio · 8°14′♀8°Mars in Virgo · 12°25′♂12°Jupiter in Leo · 3°55′♃3°Saturn in Pisces · 23°25′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Virgo · 22°57′♅22°Neptune in Scorpio · 21°27′♆21°Pluto in Virgo · 19°57′♇19°

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

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

    David’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.5° to 2.0° orb

    David’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune1.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.4° to 2.8° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars3.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 6°53′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 5°18′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 13°54′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°57′ (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 conjunction Saturn 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.3°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.5°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.9°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

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

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, 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.

  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.9°

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David’s cards

Computed from November 2, 1966. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188792 (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 Philippe Berdalle, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Schwimmer at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Schwimmer.

Quick answers about David Schwimmer’s chart

How old is David Schwimmer?
David Schwimmer is 60 years old, born November 2, 1966 in Flushing, United States.
What zodiac sign is David Schwimmer?
David Schwimmer is a Scorpio: born November 2, 1966, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is David Schwimmer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1966 birth.
How tall is David Schwimmer?
David Schwimmer is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is David Schwimmer's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is David Schwimmer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is David Schwimmer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is David Schwimmer's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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