Keith David
Keith David (born June 4, 1956, New York City, United States), aged 70, is an American actor. David is best known for Gargoyles and The Thing. David's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator.
Keith David’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Keith
Keith David’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Keith in the U.S.?
#801
US rank in 2025
~440,123
Americans share it since 1888
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1956, Keith came 36th among boys and 1,947th among girls, carried by 11,480 American boys and 31 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Keith’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Keith’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Keith apart
Angelina Jolie (1975) and Russell Brand (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Keith, according to the stars
Core essence
Keith is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Keith needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Keith 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 Keith needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Keith wants to be loved
Keith wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Keith gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Keith creates
How Keith makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Keith creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Keith 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. Keith 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; Keith 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 Keith's birth date. Working below.
Where Keith sits
Six lines
Keith’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 Keith David
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 87.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 19% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
How unusual Keith's chart is
Chart pattern score
77 / 100 · Rare
Grand cross · 3 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Keith David's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Keith David was born on June 4, 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.
Keith David's birth date, June 4, 1956, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Keith’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Keith David's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Neptune.
- Keith David combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Keith’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Aries 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
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Keith’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.6° to 0.9° orb
Keith’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.3° to 1.4° orb
Keith’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.5° to 3.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Keith’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 11°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 8°31′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 11°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 0°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.2°
- Eros trine Sun 2.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
Keith’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Keith’s chart
Grand cross · Mercury, Saturn, Mars, PlutoTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Mercury, Saturn, Mars, JupiterTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
More people like Keith
Other actors
- Mykelti Williamson1957
- Tom McCamus1955
- Vanna White1957
- Jeana Keough1955
- Jenifer Lewis1957
- François Cluzet1955
Born in United States
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- Roderick MacKinnonAmerican neuroscientist
- Meg WhitmanAmerican business executive
- Bryan CranstonAmerican actor
- Michael BiehnAmerican actor
- Carol GuzyAmerican photographer (born 1956)
More charts like Keith’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Norman PowellAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Nolan TraoréFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Royce O'NealeAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Born in Monkey years
- Tisha CampbellAmerican actress
- Billy CrudupAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Margaret ChoAmerican comedian and actress (born 1968)
Also born on June 4
- Angelina Jolie1975
- Russell Brand1975
- Noah Wyle1971
- Central Cee1998
- Evan Spiegel1990
- Henna Virkkunen1972
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Liv UllmannNorwegian actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)
- Hardy KrügerGerman actor
- Ernie SabellaAmerican actor
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Diem BrownAmerican television personality; reality TV star
- Andy CohenAmerican radio and television talk show host
- Mike FisherCanadian ice hockey player (born 1980)
- La Toya JacksonAmerican singer
Other Tidal Explorers
- Steve McQueenAmerican actor
- Bruce BennettAmerican actor
- Steven BerkoffBritish actor, playwright, author and director (born 1937)
- Barton MacLaneactor, playwright, screenwriter
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Baron WaqaNauruan politician
- Marlon WayansAmerican actor, screenwriter, and film producer
- Nick RobinsonAmerican actor
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Keith’s cards
Computed from June 4, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Keith’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q370918 (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 Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Keith David.
Quick answers about Keith David’s chart
- How old is Keith David?
- Keith David is 70 years old, born June 4, 1956 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Keith David?
- Keith David is a Gemini: born June 4, 1956, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Keith David's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1956 birth.
- What is Keith David's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Keith David's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Keith David's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Keith David's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
