Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman (born February 21, 1946, Acton, United Kingdom; died 2016), was a British actor and director. Notable films include Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Die Hard. Rickman's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Golden Globe Awards.
Alan Rickman’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Rickman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Alan ranked 49th among boys and 3,996th among girls in 1946, the year of this birth, with 6,490 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alan apart
Alan Rickman took the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1992, at 46.
Latymer Upper School and Derwentwater Primary School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1972, at 26.
Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.
Alan Rickman was married Rima Horton.
Wikipedia's editors put Alan Rickman under Actors from the London Borough of Ealing, Deaths from pancreatic cancer in England and Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts.
The same date carries Anthony Daniels. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Latymer Upper School, Derwentwater Primary School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1992), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1996) and Golden Globe Awards (1997)
- Nominated for
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
- Working from
- 1972
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 93
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.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Alan, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Alan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Rickman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Acton 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 Acton that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Acton at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Acton at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 71% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Acton, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Hammersmith
Wikidata records Hammersmith as Alan Rickman's home, against Acton as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alan Rickman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Earth planets
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 →Alan Rickman at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Alan Rickman's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Alan Rickman was born on February 21, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Alan Rickman's birth date, February 21, 1946, 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 Rickman's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Alan Rickman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurysquareUranus1.6° to 3.5° orb
Alan’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
Alan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars2.3° to 4.2° orb
Alan’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 7.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune6.0° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 21°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°37′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°07′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°53′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
Born the same day as Alan
Anthony Daniels was born on February 21, 1946 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Acton, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alan
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Born in United Kingdom
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- Helen MirrenBritish actress (born 1945)
- Anthony DanielsEnglish actor and mime artist (born 1946)
- David TrimbleFirst Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
- David BowieEnglish musician and actor
- Anthony BamfordBritish businessman (born 1945)
More charts like Alan’s
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Born in Dog years
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- Siddhartha MukherjeeIndian-American physician and writer (born 1970)
- Annette Gordon-ReedAmerican historian
Also born on February 21
- W. H. Auden1907
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- Sophie Turner1996
- Jennifer Love Hewitt1979
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Ben OkriNigerian-born British poet and novelist
- J BalvinColombian singer
- Toni ColletteAustralian actress and musician
Other Pisces Dog charts
- David NivenBritish actor and novelist
- Miranda RichardsonBritish actress
- Grigory MargulisRussian mathematician
- Edward Calvin KendallAmerican chemist
Other Radiant Seekers
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- Alison BrieAmerican actress and writer
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- John F. Kennedy Jr.American attorney and magazine publisher
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Cloris LeachmanAmerican actress and comedian
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Alan’s cards
Computed from February 21, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106481 (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 Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Rickman 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 Rickman.
Quick answers about Alan Rickman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Rickman?
- Alan Rickman was a Pisces: born February 21, 1946, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan Rickman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1946 birth.
- What was Alan Rickman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Rickman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan Rickman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Rickman's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
