Alan Baker
Alan Baker (born August 19, 1939, London, United Kingdom; died 2018), was an English mathematician. Baker's honours include Fields medal, Adams Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Alan Baker’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Alan Baker’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
~364,389
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
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Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
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What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Alan openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Alan creates
How Alan 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. Alan 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: Alan is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Alan 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alan 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 Alan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Alan Baker's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Alan Baker was born on August 19, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Alan Baker's birth date, August 19, 1939, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Baker's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Baker combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alan Baker, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.1° orb
Alan’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.5° orb
Alan’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Alan’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
Alan’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb
Alan’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.1° to 4.2° orb
Alan’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.6° to 4.9° orb
Alan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb
Alan’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
Alan’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarsoppositionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
Alan’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCancer 16°25′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Alan is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLeo 2°25′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Alan is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCancer 5°12′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Alan is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 0°60′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Alan is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Alan at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.9°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Alan is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Baker, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from August 19, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alan Baker, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310769, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 JET Photographic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Baker at Wikipedia.
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 Baker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Baker?
- Alan Baker was a Leo: born August 19, 1939, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- What was Alan Baker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1939 birth.
- What time was Alan Baker born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Alan Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 19, 1939 birth date.
- What was Alan Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 19, 1939 birth date.
- Where was Alan Baker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Baker's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
