Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (born February 5, 1914, Banbury, United Kingdom; died 1998), was a Physiologist and biophysicist. Hodgkin served as President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Hodgkin's honours include Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Baly Medal.
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Alan ranked 344th in 1914, the year of this birth, with 184 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Alan apart
Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) 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 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 processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Alan needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Alan be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Banbury on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Banbury that night
Computed for 52.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Banbury at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 52.1°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Banbury at all: they sit past the −37.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 73% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · Only two elements
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was born on February 5, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's birth date, February 5, 1914, 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 Lloyd Hodgkin's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.7° orb
Alan’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.2° orb
Alan’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.3° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air8 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Earth signs.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 12°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°60′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°17′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°57′ (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 sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea square Venus 3.0°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Alan’s cards
Computed from February 5, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193650 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Quick answers about Alan Lloyd Hodgkin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin?
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an Aquarius: born February 5, 1914, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1914 birth.
- What was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Lloyd Hodgkin's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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