Alan MacDiarmid
Alan MacDiarmid (born April 14, 1927, Masterton, New Zealand; died 2007), was a New Zealand chemist. MacDiarmid's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of New Zealand and Rutherford Medal.
Alan MacDiarmid’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan MacDiarmid’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 178th among boys and 3,877th among girls in 1927, the year of this birth, with 808 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
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
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Alan apart
Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) and Adrien Brody (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Alan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Alan is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Alan needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Alan is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Alan is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Alan leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Alan scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 MacDiarmid
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Masterton 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 Masterton that night
Computed for 40.97°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Suhail stood nearest the zenith over Masterton at 9 p.m. that evening, 72.6° above the horizon in Vela.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 41.0°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Alan MacDiarmid's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Alan MacDiarmid was born on April 14, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Alan MacDiarmid's birth date, April 14, 1927, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan MacDiarmid's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan MacDiarmid combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Virgo 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
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.0° orb
Alan’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.8° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° orb
Alan’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.6° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.2° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.3° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°09′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 6°51′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.9°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
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More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Jackie ChanHong Kong actor and martial artist
- Céline DionFrench Canadian singer
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Born in Rabbit years
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- Molly-Mae HagueTV Personality
Also born on April 14
- Sarah Michelle Gellar1977
- Adrien Brody1973
- Abigail Breslin1996
- Georgina Chapman1976
- Rob McElhenney1977
- Chase Young1999
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Breckin MeyerAmerican actor
- Joe PesciAmerican actor
- Ashley OlsenAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer and actress (born 1986)
Other Aries Rabbit charts
- Brooklyn DeckerAmerican model and actress
- William DanielsAmerican actor (born 1927)
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Other Steadfast Strategists
- Nicholas KristofAmerican journalist and political commentator
- Bernard DeVotoAmerican historian and author
- Mary OliverAmerican poet
- George OppenAmerican poet
Famous people with Life Path 1
- StingBritish musician (born 1951)
- Yo-Yo MaAmerican cellist (born 1955)
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Alan’s cards
Computed from April 14, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110942 (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 UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan MacDiarmid 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 MacDiarmid.
Quick answers about Alan MacDiarmid’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan MacDiarmid?
- Alan MacDiarmid was an Aries: born April 14, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan MacDiarmid's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1927 birth.
- What was Alan MacDiarmid's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan MacDiarmid's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan MacDiarmid's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan MacDiarmid's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
