Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born January 27, 1965, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom, 08:20), aged 61, is a British actor. Notable films include GoldenEye, Eyes Wide Shut and X2. Cumming's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Laurence Olivier Awards.
Alan Cumming’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Cumming’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Alan in the U.S.?
#191
US rank in 2025
~364,389
Americans share it since 1882
1955
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,612 American boys and 17 girls named Alan in 1965: 59th among boys and 3,050th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
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 record
What sets Alan apart
The Theatre World Award came in 1998, when Alan Cumming was 33.
The schooling ran through Carnoustie High School and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Alan Cumming was 15 when the work began in 1980.
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Mike Patton (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carnoustie High School and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1998), honorary doctorate (2015) and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1998)
- Working from
- 1980
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
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 is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Alan needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Alan you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Alan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Alan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Alan's birth date. Working below.
Where Alan sits
Six lines
Alan’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 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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Read from the sky above Aberfeldy at 08:20, Alan Cumming’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Aberfeldy that night
Computed for 56.62°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Aberfeldy was Edasich, in Draco, 80.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 56.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −33.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Aberfeldy on any night.
The Moon, 24% lit at waning crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 1° below the horizon.
What Alan's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Enforcer 廉貞, The Breaker 破軍 in 酉
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Generator, profile 6/2
Emotional authority · Quadruple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Alan Cumming's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Alan Cumming was born on January 27, 1965, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Alan Cumming's birth date, January 27, 1965, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Alan Cumming's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 4th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Cumming's timed chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Alan Cumming combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 0.6° orb
Alan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 0.7° orb
Alan’s growth flows straight into their depths.
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.1° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
SunsextileMoonseparating · 2.1° orb
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 2.2° orb
JupitertrineUranusseparating · 2.4° orb
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 2.7° orb
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb
JupiteroppositionNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
MercurytrinePlutoseparating · 3.4° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
VenustrineUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
MoonsquareUranusapplying · 4.9° orb
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 5.1° orb
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 5.3° orb
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 15°56′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°41′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°14′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 7°05′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°10′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Moon 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.8°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.3°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Moon quintile Mars 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.0°
Alan’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 8 | Sun | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 10 | Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 8 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 12 | Jupiter | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 11 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | Mars, Uranus, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 8 | Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 4 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 2 | Mercury, Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Alan’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316629 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Scottish Government, CC BY 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 Alan Cumming.
Quick answers about Alan Cumming’s chart
- How old is Alan Cumming?
- Alan Cumming is 61 years old, born January 27, 1965 in Aberfeldy, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Alan Cumming?
- Alan Cumming is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1965, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Alan Cumming's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1965 birth.
- What time was Alan Cumming born?
- 08:20 local time in Aberfeldy, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Alan Cumming's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 08:20 birth time in Aberfeldy, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Alan Cumming's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alan Cumming's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 15°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alan Cumming's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alan Cumming's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
