Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949, New Rochelle, United States), aged 77, is an American composer (born 1949). Menken is best known for Pocahontas: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack, Tangled: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack and The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Menken's honours include Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Daytime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Alan Menken’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Menken’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
In 1949, 7,255 American boys and 14 girls were registered Alan — 45th among boys and 2,727th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets Alan apart
Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) 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 feels the room before entering it. The core of Alan is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Alan, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
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 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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alan creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Alan is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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 Menken
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Rochelle 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 Rochelle that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New Rochelle at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
New Rochelle sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Rochelle at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 9% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Alan Menken's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Alan Menken was born on July 22, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Alan Menken's birth date, July 22, 1949, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Menken's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Menken combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° 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
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.3° to 3.5° orb
Alan’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb
Alan’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.0° orb
Alan’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.6° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.8° to 16.1° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileSaturnorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 2°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 13°56′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 13°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°15′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.6°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
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Born in Ox years
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- Willem Dafoe1955
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Other Tidal Visionarys
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Alan’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317272 (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 Sarah Ackerman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Menken at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Menken.
Quick answers about Alan Menken’s chart
- How old is Alan Menken?
- Alan Menken is 77 years old, born July 22, 1949 in New Rochelle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Alan Menken?
- Alan Menken is a Cancer: born July 22, 1949, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Alan Menken's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1949 birth.
- What is Alan Menken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alan Menken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alan Menken's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alan Menken's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
