Alan Diaz
Alan Diaz (born May 15, 1947, New York, United States; died 2018), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Diaz's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Alan Diaz’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Alan Diaz’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, 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 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
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Alan is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Alan is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Alan needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Alan builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alan is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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.
Where Alan sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Alan Diaz's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Alan Diaz was born on May 15, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Alan Diaz's birth date, May 15, 1947, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Diaz's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Diaz combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alan Diaz, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Pisces 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.9° orb
Alan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.0° to 2.3° orb
Alan’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.9° to 2.0° orb
Alan’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.0° to 1.4° orb
Alan’s affections and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Alan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Alan’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.6° orb
Alan’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileUranusorb from 3.9° to 5.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 4°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Alan carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 13°16′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Alan looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 21°45′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Alan attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
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 LilithCapricorn 11°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Alan is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.3°
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.7°
- Eros trine Venus 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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Alan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Diaz, 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 May 15, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alan Diaz, 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 Q4706508, 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.
The same Alan Diaz 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alan Diaz.
Quick answers about Alan Diaz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Diaz?
- Alan Diaz was a Taurus: born May 15, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
- What was Alan Diaz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1947 birth.
- What time was Alan Diaz 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 Diaz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 15, 1947 birth date.
- What was Alan Diaz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1947 birth date.
- Where was Alan Diaz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Diaz's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
