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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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 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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Alan sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Alan Menken, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° 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.
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.
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.
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
Alan’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
Alan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.7° orb
Alan’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 5.5° orb
Alan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 2°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Alan building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 13°56′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Alan caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 13°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Alan is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°15′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Alan is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Alan carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Alan is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Menken, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from July 22, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alan Menken, 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 Q317272, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Alan Menken 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 is Alan Menken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1949 birth date.
- What is Alan Menken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
