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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Alan
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 1882
1955
its peak year
In 1947, 7,823 American boys and 19 girls were registered Alan — 45th among boys and 2,279th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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 record
What sets Alan apart
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) 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 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. Working below.
Where Alan sits
Six lines
Alan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alan Diaz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York that night
Computed for 43.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York sits at 43.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York at all: they sit past the −47.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 24% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 4°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 13°16′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 21°45′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Alan’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alan’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Alan
Other photographers
- Eddie Adams1933
- Tim Gunn1953
- Joni Mitchell1943
- Don Bartletti1947
- Malcolm Browne1931
- David C. Turnley1955
Born in United States
- Glenn CloseAmerican actress (born 1947)
- O. J. SimpsonAmerican football player and actor
- James WoodsAmerican actor
- Jack N. RakoveAmerican historian
- Rob ReinerAmerican filmmaker and actor
- Albert BrooksAmerican actor and comedian
More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Gisèle RabesahalaMalagasy politician and activist who was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in the government of Madagascar
- Chet HolmgrenAmerican basketball player
- Victoria MonétAmerican singer and songwriter
Born in Pig years
- Brett GardnerAmerican baseball player
- Greta GerwigAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Lukas GageAmerican actor and writer
Also born on May 15
- Pierre Curie1859
- Haerin2006
- Huddy2002
- Role Model1997
- Zara Tindall1981
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler1981
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Shy TuttleAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Christian WatsonAmerican football wide receiver
- Chig OkonkwoAmerican football player
Other Taurus Pig charts
- Ellyes SkhiriTunisian and French association football player
- Trent SiegAmerican football player
- Samson EbukamAmerican football player from the United States
- Ogbonnia OkoronkwoAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Evergreen Architects
- Rodney Thomas IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Talanoa HufangaAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Matt AraizaAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jalen BrooksAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Broderick Washington Jr.American football player (born 1996)
- Travon WalkerAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Trenton SimpsonAmerican football player (born 2001)
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Alan’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4706508 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Alan Diaz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Alan Diaz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Diaz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
