Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan (born February 12, 1923, Brooklyn, United States; died 2003), was an American poet. Dugan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Award for Poetry.
Alan Dugan’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Dugan’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
Alan ranked 221st in 1923, the year of this birth, with 588 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alan apart
Alan Dugan took the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1962, at 39.
Jamaica High School shaped the training.
The family line: married Judith Shahn.
Wikipedia's editors put Alan Dugan under Writers from Queens, New York, Yale Younger Poets winners and United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II.
The same date carries Mel Powell. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Jamaica High School
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1962), National Book Award for Poetry (1962) and Shelley Memorial Award (1982)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
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 steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Alan needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alan is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Dugan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 8% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Hyannis, Barnstable County in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alan Dugan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Alan Dugan in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Alan Dugan's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Alan Dugan was born on February 12, 1923, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Alan Dugan's birth date, February 12, 1923, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Dugan's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Alan Dugan combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Capricorn 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.9° orb
Alan’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.1° to 0.8° orb
Alan’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 14°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 16°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°57′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 3.0°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Alan’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
Born the same day as Alan
Mel Powell was born on February 12, 1923 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Brooklyn, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alan
Other poets
- James Schuyler1923
- Sam Ragan1915
- Gwyn Thomas1936
- Marya Zaturenska1902
- Louis Simpson1923
- Roald Dahl1916
Born in United States
- Val Logsdon FitchAmerican physicist
- Ava GardnerAmerican actress
- Anne BaxterAmerican actress
- Kurt VonnegutAmerican author
- Mel PowellAmerican composer
- Anthony HechtAmerican poet
More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
- Jason RitterAmerican actor
- Molly RingwaldAmerican actress and writer (born 1968)
Born in Dog years
- Glen HansardIrish musician and songwriter
- Emma McKeonAustralian swimmer
- Melissa FumeroAmerican actress
Also born on February 12
- Abraham Lincoln1809
- Charles Darwin1809
- Christina Ricci1980
- Josh Brolin1968
- Lee Byung-chul1910
- Bobi Wine1982
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Barry DillerAmerican businessman (born 1942)
- Gigi PritzkerAmerican billionaire and film producer
- Philippe SternSwiss entrepreneur
Other Aquarius Dog charts
- William SylvesterAmerican film actor
- Linda BlairAmerican actress
- Barry HumphriesAustralian comedian and actor
- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Julius ChestnutAmerican football running back
- Jackson Powers-JohnsonAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Sion JamesAmerican basketball player
- Pat ConnaughtonAmerican baseball and basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 11
- James GammonAmerican actor
- Kiyohiko IchiharaJapanese actor
- Miles TellerAmerican actor
From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year
Alan’s cards
Computed from February 12, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4706542 (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 Dugan 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 Dugan.
Quick answers about Alan Dugan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Dugan?
- Alan Dugan was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1923, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan Dugan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1923 birth.
- What was Alan Dugan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Dugan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan Dugan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Dugan's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
