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Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, Northampton, United Kingdom), aged 72, is a British comic book author (born 1953). Moore is best known for Providence, Neonomicon and Voice of the Fire. Moore's honours include Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Adamson Awards and Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative.

Alan Moore’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Alan Moore’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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

The SSA recorded 8,454 American boys and 11 girls named Alan in 1953: 43rd among boys and 3,482nd among girls for the year.

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

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5).

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

11 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

The record

What sets Alan apart

Margaret Atwood (1939) and Chloë Sevigny (1974) 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 does not do surface. The core of Alan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Alan is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Alan runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Alan needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Alan wants to be loved

Alan wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Alan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alan is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Alan fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Alan's birth date. Working below.

Where Alan sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alan

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alan Moore

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

Alan’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 85.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 47.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Northampton that night

Computed for 52.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Northampton at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 52.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Northampton on any night.

The Moon, 94% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.

How unusual Alan's chart is

Chart pattern score

74 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Uranus · A bowl chart

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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Alan Moore's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Alan Moore was born on November 18, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Alan Moore's birth date, November 18, 1953, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 25°52′☉25°Moon in Aries · 21°47′☽21°Mercury in Scorpio · 17°25′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Scorpio · 8°26′♀8°Mars in Libra · 10°28′♂10°Jupiter in Gemini · 24°34′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Scorpio · 3°12′♄3°Uranus in Cancer · 22°56′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Libra · 24°47′♆24°Pluto in Leo · 25°00′♇25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Alan’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb

    Alan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Alan’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°26′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 24°17′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 11°41′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 0°33′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 6°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.0°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.7°

Alan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Alan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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-square Mars 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

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Alan’s cards

Computed from November 18, 1953. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205739 (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 Fimb, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alan Moore at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Moore.

Quick answers about Alan Moore’s chart

How old is Alan Moore?
Alan Moore is 72 years old, born November 18, 1953 in Northampton, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Alan Moore?
Alan Moore is a Scorpio: born November 18, 1953, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Alan Moore's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1953 birth.
What is Alan Moore's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Alan Moore's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alan Moore's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alan Moore's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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