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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Alan
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 1882
1955
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1918, Alan came 302nd, carried by 333 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
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 record
What sets Alan apart
Richard Gere (1949) and Queen Rania of Jordan (1970) 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 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. Working below.
Where Alan sits
Six lines
Alan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Jay Lerner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Vega, in Lyra, 87.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Cancer 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
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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 9°21′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Alan’s dominant planets
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
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.
- 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°
Alan’s family here
One relative of Alan Jay Lerner also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Alan’s cards
Computed from August 31, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q961893 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Alan Jay Lerner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Jay Lerner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
