Alan Ford
Alan Ford (born February 23, 1938, Camberwell, United Kingdom), aged 88, is an English actor.
Alan Ford’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Ford’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 91st in 1938, the year of this birth, with 2,241 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.
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
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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
Wikipedia's editors put Alan Ford under People from Camberwell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldiers and Alumni of East 15 Acting School.
Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Nominated for
- European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Alan is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Alan, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Alan is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Alan leads without needing to do it alone.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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 Ford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Camberwell 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 Camberwell that night
Computed for 51.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Camberwell at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 13.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Camberwell at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 34% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Alan Ford's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Alan Ford was born on February 23, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Alan Ford's birth date, February 23, 1938, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Ford's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Alan Ford combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Sagittarius 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
stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.2° orb
Alan’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
Alan’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.3° to 2.8° orb
Alan’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.2° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 4.3° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryconjunctionJupiterorb from 7.8° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 25°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 22°44′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°31′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 0°14′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Eros square Saturn 2.3°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.5°
- Eros trine Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.8°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
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.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.5°
More people like Alan
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- Keir Dullea1936
- Christopher Lloyd1938
- Susan Kohner1936
- Kenny Rogers1938
- Frederic Forrest1936
Born in United Kingdom
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- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- Alan BakerEnglish mathematician
- John HumeIrish politician from Northern Ireland
- Corin RedgraveBritish actor
- Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Milana VayntrubAmerican actress
- Sidney PoitierBahamian and American actor and diplomat
- David NivenBritish actor and novelist
Born in Tiger years
- Teun KoopmeinersDutch association football player (born 1998)
- Joaquín PiquerezUruguayan association football player
- Merih DemiralTurkish association football player (born 1998)
Also born on February 23
- Emily Blunt1983
- Casemiro1992
- Michael Dell1965
- Samara Weaving1992
- Dakota Fanning1994
- Aziz Ansari1983
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- Corinna KopfAmerican Internet personality
Other Pisces Tiger charts
- Marco FriedlAustrian footballer
- Petar MusaCroatian footballer
- Najee HarrisAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Malik HarrisonAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Alexander MamutRussian billionaire
- Terry PegulaAmerican businessman (born 1951)
- Wang XingChinese businessman
- James CoulterAmerican businessman
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Ja MorantAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- LaufeyIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
- girl in redNorwegian musician (born 1999)
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Alan’s cards
Computed from February 23, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2830505 (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 Ford at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alan Ford.
Quick answers about Alan Ford’s chart
- How old is Alan Ford?
- Alan Ford is 88 years old, born February 23, 1938 in Camberwell, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Alan Ford?
- Alan Ford is a Pisces: born February 23, 1938, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Alan Ford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1938 birth.
- What is Alan Ford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alan Ford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alan Ford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alan Ford's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
