Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936, Manhattan, United States, 05:07), aged 90, is an American actor (born 1936). Alda's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Alan Alda’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Alan Alda’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Alan in the U.S.?
#191
US rank in 2025
~364,389
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Alan apart
Elijah Wood (1981) and Carlos Slim (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Alan is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Alan 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 Alan needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Alan and watch them fall for you again.
How Alan creates
How Alan 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. Alan 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: Alan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Alan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Alan 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 Alan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Alan sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Alan Alda's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Alan Alda was born on January 28, 1936, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Alan Alda's birth date, January 28, 1936, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Alan Alda's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Alda's timed chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Alda combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Alan’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 0.7° orb
Alan’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenustrineUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
Alan’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 2.1° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.2° orb
Alan’s drive and discipline act as one.
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 3.6° orb
Alan’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsextileMoonapplying · 4.0° orb
Alan’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.
MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.5° orb
Alan’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareUranusseparating · 5.6° orb
Alan’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 5.6° orb
Alan’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 6.2° orb
Alan’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.6° orb
Alan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturnoppositionNeptuneapplying · 7.7° orb
Alan’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°05′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Alan turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°21′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Alan is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAries 6°24′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Alan is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°18′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Alan is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°11′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Alan that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 0.1°
- Chiron square Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Moon 1.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.5°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Alan’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Alan is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Moon semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
Alan’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 3 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 5 | Sun, Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 9 | Mars, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 3 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 12 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 4 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 2 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 2 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 12 | Venus, Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from January 28, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310394, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Alda at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Alan Alda’s chart
- How old is Alan Alda?
- Alan Alda is 90 years old, born January 28, 1936 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Alan Alda?
- Alan Alda is an Aquarius: born January 28, 1936, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
- What is Alan Alda's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 28, 1936 birth.
- What time was Alan Alda born?
- 05:07 local time in Manhattan, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Alan Alda's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 05:07 birth time in Manhattan, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Alan Alda's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 28, 1936 birth date.
- What is Alan Alda's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 28, 1936 birth time.
- Where is Alan Alda's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alan Alda's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
