Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (born August 31, 1918, New York City, United States; died 1986), was an American lyricist and librettist. Lerner's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
Alan Jay Lerner’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Alan Jay Lerner’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Alan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Alan is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Alan needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Alan openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alan creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Alan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alan runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Alan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Alan Jay Lerner's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Alan Jay Lerner was born on August 31, 1918, which falls in a Earth 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 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Alan Jay Lerner's birth date, August 31, 1918, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Jay Lerner's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Jay Lerner combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alan Jay Lerner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Cancer 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 0.9° orb
Alan’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextilePluto0.6° to 1.5° orb
Alan’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
Alan’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.6° orb
Alan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileMars1.7° to 2.0° orb
Alan’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
Alan’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.2° orb
Alan’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
Alan’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.4° orb
Alan’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 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 ℞Aries 2°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Alan may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Alan is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 9°21′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Alan loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Alan feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°47′ (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.
- Eros square Mars 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.0°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
6 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Jay Lerner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Alan’s family here
One relative of Alan Jay Lerner also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from August 31, 1918, 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 Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alan Jay Lerner, 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 Q961893, 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 Distributed by NBC (Motown). Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Jay Lerner 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 Jay Lerner.
Quick answers about Alan Jay Lerner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Jay Lerner?
- Alan Jay Lerner was a Virgo: born August 31, 1918, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Alan Jay Lerner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1918 birth.
- What time was Alan Jay Lerner 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 was Alan Jay Lerner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1918 birth date.
- What was Alan Jay Lerner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Alan Jay Lerner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Jay Lerner's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
