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Alan Ritchson

Alan Ritchson (born November 28, 1982, Grand Forks, United States, 03:00), aged 43, is an American actor. Notable films include Smallville, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Fast X.

Alan Ritchson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Alan Ritchson’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 2,687 American boys and 15 girls named Alan in 1982: 107th among boys and 4,719th 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.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Rose-gold · Soft pink

The record

What sets Alan apart

Anna Nicole Smith (1967) and Trey Songz (1984) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Alan is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Alan is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Alan needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Alan wants to be loved

Alan wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Alan and watch them fall for you again.

How Alan creates

How Alan makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Alan creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alan is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alan does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Alan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alan

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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

Alan’s birth-sky starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 79° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 72.2° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Grand Forks at 03:00, Alan Ritchson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Grand Forks that night

Computed for 47.93°N, at the documented birth time.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Grand Forks at the birth hour, 79.0° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

At 47.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Grand Forks at all: they sit past the −42.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.

What Alan's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 酉.

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/3

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

67 / 100 · Unusual

5-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Alan Ritchson's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Alan Ritchson was born on November 28, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Alan Ritchson's birth date, November 28, 1982, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Sagittarius · 5°48′ · house 3☉5°Moon in Taurus · 0°17′ · house 8☽0°Mercury in Sagittarius · 10°37′ · house 3☿10°Venus in Sagittarius · 11°49′ · house 3♀11°Mars in Capricorn · 20°48′ · house 4♂20°Jupiter in Scorpio · 24°08′ · house 2♃24°Saturn in Libra · 29°53′ · house 1♄29°Uranus in Sagittarius · 4°57′ · house 3♅4°Neptune in Sagittarius · 25°59′ · house 3♆25°Pluto in Libra · 28°20′ · house 1♇28°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 10°58′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 10°58′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCnc 13°43′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCap 13°43′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLibra
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.4° orb

    Alan’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.9° orb

    Alan’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.2° orb

    Alan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.5° orb

  • MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 1.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.4° orb

  • MarssextileJupiterapplying · 3.3° orb

  • SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 4.3° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 6.0° orb

  • VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 24°38′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°09′ · House 3

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 5°60′ · House 4

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 12°55′ · House 1

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°51′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Ascendant 2.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 3.0°

Alan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Mars; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Alan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, NeptuneThree 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 0.0°
  • Sun biquintile Moon 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Moon biquintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

Alan’s houses

Alan’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 3Saturn, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 1Jupitermoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 2Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 1Marshome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 3emptycreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Capricorn, house 4emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 3Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Sagittarius, house 3emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Taurus, house 8emptycareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Sagittarius, house 3emptyfriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Sagittarius, house 3emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Alan’s cards

Computed from November 28, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q926963 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Danielle G. Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alan Ritchson.

Quick answers about Alan Ritchson’s chart

How old is Alan Ritchson?
Alan Ritchson is 43 years old, born November 28, 1982 in Grand Forks, United States.
What zodiac sign is Alan Ritchson?
Alan Ritchson is a Sagittarius: born November 28, 1982, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What is Alan Ritchson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 28, 1982 birth.
What time was Alan Ritchson born?
03:00 local time in Grand Forks, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Alan Ritchson's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 03:00 birth time in Grand Forks, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Alan Ritchson?
Alan Ritchson is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Alan Ritchson's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Alan Ritchson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 24°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alan Ritchson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alan Ritchson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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