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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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 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

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

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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Alan sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alan

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Alan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alan

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Alan M. Kriegsman at a glance

Pisces Sun

Dreams 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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Alan M. Kriegsman was born on February 28, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Alan M. Kriegsman's birth date, February 28, 1928, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Alan M. Kriegsman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.2° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.2° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.6° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 6.3° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 7.1° orbSun in Pisces · 8°53′Moon in Gemini · 16°13′16°Mercury in Pisces · 0°30′ · retrogradeVenus in Aquarius · 7°23′Mars in Aquarius · 0°20′Jupiter in Aries · 7°34′Saturn in Sagittarius · 18°26′18°Uranus in Aries · 1°59′Neptune in Leo · 27°30′ · retrograde27°Pluto in Cancer · 15°09′ · retrograde15°

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Alan’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSuntrinePluto5.8° to 6.8° orb

    Alan’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.3° orb

    Alan’s affections and drive act as one.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironTaurus 2°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alan building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresAquarius 14°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Alan is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ErosCapricorn 23°29′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Alan is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaCapricorn 10°39′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Alan is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • Black Moon LilithScorpio 10°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Alan is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 1. Neptune6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Alan is read as tuned to what is not said.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan M. Kriegsman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Alan’s cards

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The Hierophant

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The Steadfast Explorer

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yang Earth

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Alan M. Kriegsman, 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 Q2636772, 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.

The same Alan M. Kriegsman at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
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 time was Alan M. Kriegsman 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 M. Kriegsman's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 28, 1928 birth date.
What was Alan M. Kriegsman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 28, 1928 birth date.
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.

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