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Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor (born June 17, 1955, Portland, United States), aged 71, is an American historian. Taylor's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award.

Alan Taylor’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Alan Taylor’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth 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 43rd among boys and 2,972nd among girls in 1955, the year of this birth, with 9,037 American boys and 15 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.

2

Expression · connecting people

9

Soul Urge · meaning

11

Personality · perceptive

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 · 2

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

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 1955, 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 Taylor took the Bancroft Prize in 1996, at 41.

Colby College and Bonny Eagle High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1977, at 22.

Wikipedia's editors put Alan Taylor under Historians from Maine, Academics from Portland, Maine and University of California, Davis faculty.

KJ Apa (1997) and Barry Manilow (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Colby College, Bonny Eagle High School and Brandeis University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (2014), Bancroft Prize (1996) and Albert J. Beveridge Award (1996)
Nominated for
National Book Award for Nonfiction and Pulitzer Prize for History
Working from
1977
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
9

What the chart says

Alan, according to the stars

Core essence

Alan is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Alan needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

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 in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Alan like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Alan creates

How Alan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Alan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Alan is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Alan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alan

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Alan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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 Taylor

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

Alan’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 83.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Portland that night

Computed for 43.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −46.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Portland on any night.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Alan's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Alan Taylor's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 17, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Alan Taylor was born on June 17, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Alan Taylor's birth date, June 17, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 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 12° to 27° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun in Gemini · 25°41′☉25°Moon in Taurus · 20°16′☽20°Mercury in Gemini · 23°34′ · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Gemini · 5°14′♀5°Mars in Cancer · 14°44′♂14°Jupiter in Leo · 0°55′♃0°Saturn in Scorpio · 15°17′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Cancer · 25°59′♅25°Neptune in Libra · 25°34′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 24°43′♇24°

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

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 0.9° orb

    Alan’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.4° orb

    Alan’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.5° to 1.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.9° to 1.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 4°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 22°58′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 6°36′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 9°25′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Venus 0.5°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 1.4°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.6°

Alan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Alan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · 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 semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°

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Alan’s cards

Computed from June 17, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15514842 (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 IndyNotes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alan Taylor at Wikipedia.

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

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

Quick answers about Alan Taylor’s chart

How old is Alan Taylor?
Alan Taylor is 71 years old, born June 17, 1955 in Portland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Alan Taylor?
Alan Taylor is a Gemini: born June 17, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Alan Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1955 birth.
What is Alan Taylor's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Alan Taylor's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alan Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alan Taylor's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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