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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dog, with 
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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.
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#191
US rank in 2025
~364,389
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
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Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Alan Rickman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Alan’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.5° to 4.1° orb
Alan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.5° to 5.6° orb
Alan’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.5° orb
Alan’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.7° to 4.9° orb
Alan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° orb
Alan’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 7.0° orb
Alan’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune6.0° orb
Alan’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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 ℞Libra 21°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Alan is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°37′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Alan caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAquarius 24°07′ (moves 0.60° 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.
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°53′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Alan needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Alan is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Alan is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alan Rickman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Alan
Anthony Daniels was born on February 21, 1946 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Alan’s cards
Every card is computed from February 21, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alan Rickman, 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 Q106481, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dog.
- 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 time was Alan Rickman 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 was Alan Rickman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 21, 1946 birth date.
- What was Alan Rickman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 21, 1946 birth date.
- 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.
