Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger (born January 22, 1936, Sioux City, United States), aged 90, is an American chemist, physicist. Heeger's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Balzan Prize.
Alan J. Heeger’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan J. Heeger’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 108th in 1936, the year of this birth, with 1,755 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.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 J. Heeger took the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1983, at 47.
Training came by way of Omaha Central High School and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Alan J. Heeger under People from Akron, Iowa, American polymer scientists and engineers and Organic semiconductors.
Lev Landau (1908) and Netta Barzilai (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Omaha Central High School, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000), Balzan Prize (1995) and Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1983)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
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 by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Alan and watch them fall for you again.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alan creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Alan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Alan slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 J. Heeger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sioux City 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 Sioux City that night
Computed for 42.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Sioux City at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.5°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 −47.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sioux City, United States
- Lives in
- Akron · Omaha
Wikidata records Akron and Omaha as Alan J. Heeger's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alan J. Heeger: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Alan J. Heeger's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 22, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Alan J. Heeger was born on January 22, 1936, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Alan J. Heeger's birth date, January 22, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan J. Heeger's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Alan J. Heeger combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Alan’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb
Alan’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.3° to 2.0° orb
Alan’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.7° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileUranusorb from 4.4° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 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 11°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°22′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°26′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 1°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.2°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Alan’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.5°
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Born in Pig years
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Alan’s cards
Computed from January 22, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106751 (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 Vogler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan J. Heeger 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 J. Heeger.
Quick answers about Alan J. Heeger’s chart
- How old is Alan J. Heeger?
- Alan J. Heeger is 90 years old, born January 22, 1936 in Sioux City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Alan J. Heeger?
- Alan J. Heeger is an Aquarius: born January 22, 1936, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Alan J. Heeger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 22, 1936 birth.
- What is Alan J. Heeger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alan J. Heeger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alan J. Heeger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alan J. Heeger's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
