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Alan Ford

Alan Ford (born February 23, 1938, Camberwell, United Kingdom), aged 88, is an English actor.

Alan Ford’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 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

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

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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Alan sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Alan

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Alan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alan

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Pisces Sun

Kind, 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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Alan Ford was born on February 23, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Alan Ford's birth date, February 23, 1938, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Alan Ford, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.7° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.9° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.6° orbSun in Pisces · 4°14′Moon in Sagittarius · 18°28′18°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°43′23°Venus in Pisces · 8°55′Mars in Aries · 17°45′17°Jupiter in Aquarius · 15°12′15°Saturn in Aries · 3°51′Uranus in Taurus · 10°17′10°Neptune in Virgo · 20°12′ · retrograde20°Pluto in Cancer · 28°17′ · retrograde28°

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Alan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.8° to 5.0° orb

    Alan’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb

    Alan’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironGemini 25°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Alan turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresPisces 22°44′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Alan is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ErosCancer 1°31′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Alan is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • HygieaLibra 0°14′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Alan is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Alan leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 1. Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Neptune5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus

  3. 3. Uranus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Alan is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Ford, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Alan’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yang Earth

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Alan Ford, 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 Q2830505, 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 Ford at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
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 time was Alan Ford 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 is Alan Ford's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 23, 1938 birth date.
What is Alan Ford's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 23, 1938 birth date.
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.

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