David Willman
David Willman (born October 18, 1956, Pasadena, United States), aged 70, is an American investigative journalist. Willman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Worth Bingham Prize and Raymond Clapper Memorial Award.
David Willman’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David Willman’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
David ranked 4th among boys and 789th among girls in 1956, the year of this birth, with 81,652 American boys and 157 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
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 1956, 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
David Willman took the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2001, at 45.
Training came by way of Arroyo High School and San Jose State University.
Wikipedia's editors put David Willman under San Jose State University alumni, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners and George Polk Award recipients.
The same date carries Martina Navratilova. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Arroyo High School and San Jose State University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (2001), Worth Bingham Prize (2003) and Raymond Clapper Memorial Award (2008)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of David is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, David runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What David needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with David and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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 Willman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pasadena 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 Pasadena that night
Computed for 34.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Pasadena at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pasadena on any night.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · 3 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all
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
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
David Willman's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
David Willman was born on October 18, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
David Willman's birth date, October 18, 1956, 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 Willman's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David Willman 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 8° to 21° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
David’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.5° to 1.5° orb
David’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
David’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 7.2° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter7.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.1° to 5.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 6°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 11°19′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°35′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 23°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros square Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.0°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
Born the same day as David
Martina Navratilova was born on October 18, 1956 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.1°N, the sky above Pasadena stops at −55.9° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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David’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5241177 (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.
The same David Willman at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Willman.
Quick answers about David Willman’s chart
- How old is David Willman?
- David Willman is 70 years old, born October 18, 1956 in Pasadena, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Willman?
- David Willman is a Libra: born October 18, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is David Willman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1956 birth.
- What is David Willman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Willman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Willman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Willman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
