Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin (born March 26, 1934, Brooklyn, United States, 04:17; died 2023), was an American actor, filmmaker.
Alan Arkin’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dog, with 
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Alan Arkin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Alan apart
Richard Dawkins (1941) and Larry Page (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Alan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Alan needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Alan needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Alan be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Alan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Alan is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Alan leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Alan gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Alan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Alan Arkin's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Alan Arkin was born on March 26, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Alan Arkin's birth date, March 26, 1934, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Alan Arkin's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Venus in the 1st house and Saturn in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Arkin's timed chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Alan Arkin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Alan’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), 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
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 0.8° orb
Alan’s affections flow straight into their growth.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 1.8° orb
Alan’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercuryoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.8° orb
Alan’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 2.0° orb
Alan’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb
Alan’s growth grinds against their depths.
VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 3.3° orb
Alan’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 3.5° orb
Alan’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 4.1° orb
Alan’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.3° orb
Alan’s core identity and drive act as one.
SuntrineMoonseparating · 6.0° orb
Alan’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 6.1° orb
Alan’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 0°09′ · House 5
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.
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°44′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Alan is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 18°28′ · House 3
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.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°02′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Alan is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°12′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Alan guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.8°
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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Alan is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Moon semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.8°
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 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 3 | Venus, Saturn | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 8 | Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 3 | Sun, Mars, Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 7 | Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 3 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 2 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 9 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from March 26, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108283, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Arkin at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Arkin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Arkin?
- Alan Arkin was an Aries: born March 26, 1934, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Alan Arkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1934 birth.
- What time was Alan Arkin born?
- 04:17 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Alan Arkin's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 04:17 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Alan Arkin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1934 birth date.
- What was Alan Arkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 0°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1934 birth time.
- Where was Alan Arkin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Arkin's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
