Alan M. Kriegsman
Alan M. Kriegsman (born February 28, 1928, Brooklyn, United States; died 2012), was an American dance critic. Kriegsman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Fulbright Scholarship.
Alan M. Kriegsman’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan M. Kriegsman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth 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 1882
1955
its peak year
Alan ranked 157th among boys and 3,748th among girls in 1928, the year of this birth, with 964 American boys and 7 girls 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 M. Kriegsman took the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1976, at 48.
The classrooms behind this chart: Far Rockaway High School and University of Vienna.
Alan M. Kriegsman was married Sali Ann Kriegsman.
Wikipedia's editors put Alan M. Kriegsman under Juilliard School faculty, People from Brooklyn and American dance critics.
Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Far Rockaway High School, University of Vienna and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1976)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Alan is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Alan creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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.
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 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 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 M. Kriegsman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Castor, in Gemini, 81.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 61% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
- Lived in
- Far Rockaway
Wikidata records Far Rockaway as Alan M. Kriegsman's home, against Brooklyn as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alan M. Kriegsman: 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
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets
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 →Alan M. Kriegsman at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Alan M. Kriegsman's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Alan M. Kriegsman was born on February 28, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Alan M. Kriegsman's birth date, February 28, 1928, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan M. Kriegsman's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Alan M. Kriegsman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Gemini 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Alan’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarssextileUranus1.3° to 2.0° orb
Alan’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
Alan’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.8° to 6.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.9° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 1.8° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.5° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 18.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileUranusorb from 4.8° to 6.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 14°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°29′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 10°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°09′ (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 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.0°
- Chiron square Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.8°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 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.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
More people like Alan
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- Nancy MarchandAmerican actress
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More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Jamie LewelingGerman association football player (born 2001)
- Pathé CissSenegalese footballer
- Samet AkaydınTurkish association football player (born 1994)
Born in Dragon years
- Jean SimmonsBritish-American actress
- Giorgio MoroderItalian record producer and composer (born 1940)
- Nancy MarchandAmerican actress
Also born on February 28
- Linus Pauling1901
- Steven Chu1948
- Ali Larter1976
- Jeremy Allen White1991
- Emmelie de Forest1993
- Jason Aldean1977
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Dylan O'BrienAmerican actor
- Ne-YoAmerican R&B singer
- Candice SwanepoelSouth African model
Other Pisces Dragon charts
- Jalen SmithAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Craig Porter Jr.American basketball player
- Tyrese HaliburtonAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Trayce Jackson-DavisAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Steadfast Explorers
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
- Jacinto BenaventeSpanish writer
- Arvid CarlssonSwedish neuroscientist
- Cyril Norman HinshelwoodEnglish physical chemist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Margaret ChoAmerican comedian and actress (born 1968)
- Stephen CollinsAmerican actor
- Billy Ray CyrusAmerican country singer and actor
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Alan’s cards
Computed from February 28, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2636772 (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.
The same Alan M. Kriegsman 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 M. Kriegsman.
Quick answers about Alan M. Kriegsman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan M. Kriegsman?
- Alan M. Kriegsman was a Pisces: born February 28, 1928, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan M. Kriegsman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1928 birth.
- What was Alan M. Kriegsman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan M. Kriegsman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan M. Kriegsman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan M. Kriegsman's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
