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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst (born May 26, 1954, Stroud, United Kingdom), aged 72, is an English writer, translator and poet. Hollinghurst is best known for The Swimming-Pool Library, The Spell and The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst's honours include Booker Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Lambda Literary Award.

Alan Hollinghurst’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Alan Hollinghurst’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

Alan ranked 43rd among boys and 3,019th among girls in 1954, the year of this birth, with 8,711 American boys and 14 girls 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.

2

Expression · connecting people

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Alan apart

Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Alan needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Alan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Alan creates

How Alan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Alan creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Alan is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alan does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alan

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

PracticalVisionary
Alan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alan

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stroud on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alan’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Stroud that night

Computed for 51.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stroud was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 86.8° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 51.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 36% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.

How unusual Alan's chart is

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde · 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.

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Alan Hollinghurst at a glance

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Alan Hollinghurst's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Alan Hollinghurst was born on May 26, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Alan Hollinghurst's birth date, May 26, 1954, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.9° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.2° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.4° orbSun in Gemini · 4°39′☉4°Moon in Pisces · 16°04′☽16°Mercury in Gemini · 23°15′☿23°Venus in Cancer · 3°25′♀3°Mars in Capricorn · 8°29′ · retrograde♂℞8°Jupiter in Cancer · 0°29′♃0°Saturn in Scorpio · 3°57′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Cancer · 20°30′♅20°Neptune in Libra · 23°41′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Leo · 22°39′♇22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Alan’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Alan’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.3° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionMars4.4° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn4.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.5° to 8.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 28°23′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 0°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 25°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 0°21′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.9°

Alan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 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 quincunx Saturn 0.7°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°

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Alan’s cards

Computed from May 26, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316048 (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.

Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alan Hollinghurst at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alan Hollinghurst.

Quick answers about Alan Hollinghurst’s chart

How old is Alan Hollinghurst?
Alan Hollinghurst is 72 years old, born May 26, 1954 in Stroud, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Alan Hollinghurst?
Alan Hollinghurst is a Gemini: born May 26, 1954, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Alan Hollinghurst's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1954 birth.
What is Alan Hollinghurst's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Alan Hollinghurst's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alan Hollinghurst's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alan Hollinghurst's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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