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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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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 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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Alan sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Alan Hollinghurst at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, 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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Alan Hollinghurst was born on May 26, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can'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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Hollinghurst's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Hollinghurst combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alan Hollinghurst, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Alan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
Alan’s affections and growth act as one.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.2° orb
Alan’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.3° to 3.6° orb
Alan’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionMars4.4° to 5.7° orb
Alan’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.5° orb
Alan’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.5° to 8.0° orb
Alan’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
Alan’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 28°23′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Alan is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 0°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Alan is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 25°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Alan is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 0°21′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Alan at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Alan that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres square Venus 2.9°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Alan is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Hollinghurst, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alan Hollinghurst, 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 Q316048, 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.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Hollinghurst at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- 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 time was Alan Hollinghurst 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 Hollinghurst's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1954 birth date.
- What is Alan Hollinghurst's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1954 birth date.
- 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.
