David Wingrove
David Wingrove (born September 1, 1954, Battersea, England), aged 72, is a British writer. Wingrove's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
David Wingrove’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with David
David Wingrove’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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 1954, David came 5th among boys and 748th among girls, carried by 79,556 American boys and 153 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets David apart
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) 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 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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. David gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. David creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. David is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means David does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 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
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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Battersea that night
Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Battersea at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Battersea sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Battersea on any night.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
David Wingrove's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
David Wingrove was born on September 1, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
David Wingrove's birth date, September 1, 1954, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Wingrove's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- David Wingrove combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 6.0° orb
David’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 6.0° orb
David’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
David’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextilePluto0.1° to 1.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus1.0° to 1.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.9° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.7° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 23°36′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 27°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°26′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°02′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 8°44′ (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 sextile Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron square Venus 1.0°
- Eros square Sun 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.8°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.9°
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More charts like David’s
Fellow Virgo suns
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- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
- John James Rickard MacleodNobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
Born in Horse years
- Jackson Powers-JohnsonAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Delmar GlazeAmerican football player
- Jack BechAmerican football player (born 2002)
Also born on September 1
- Gloria Estefan1957
- Jungkook1997
- An Yu-jin2003
- Zendaya1996
- Romeo Beckham2002
- Tom Kaulitz1989
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- John CazaleAmerican actor
- Martin BalsamAmerican actor
- Folco LulliItalian actor
Other Virgo Horse charts
- Harry MyersAmerican actor
- Elizabeth DebickiAustralian actress
- Howard JacobsonBritish author and journalist
- Derek BartonEnglish organic chemist
Other Gilded Seekers
- Jessica LangeAmerican actress
- Omar SharifEgyptian actor
- Mark RuffaloAmerican actor
- Gwen StefaniAmerican singer
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Devin BookerAmerican basketball player
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
David’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343539 (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 Wingrove at Wikipedia and davidwingrove.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Wingrove.
Quick answers about David Wingrove’s chart
- How old is David Wingrove?
- David Wingrove is 72 years old, born September 1, 1954 in Battersea, England.
- What zodiac sign is David Wingrove?
- David Wingrove is a Virgo: born September 1, 1954, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is David Wingrove's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1954 birth.
- What is David Wingrove's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Wingrove's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Wingrove's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Wingrove's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
