What zodiac sign was Alan Turing?

Alan Turing was a Cancer: born June 23, 1912, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.

What was Alan Turing's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1912 birth.

What time was Alan Turing born?

02:15 local time in Maida Vale, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).

What was Alan Turing's rising sign?

Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 02:15 birth time in Maida Vale, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).

What was Alan Turing's Life Path number?

Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1912 birth date.

What was Alan Turing's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 11°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1912 birth time.

Where was Alan Turing's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 1°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Alan Turing's dominant planet?

Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Alan Turing

Alan Turing (born June 23, 1912, Maida Vale, United Kingdom, 02:15; died 1954), was an English computer scientist. Turing is best remembered for universal Turing machine, halting problem and Intelligent Machinery. Turing's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society and Smith's Prize.

Alan Turing’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Alan Turing’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Diplomat

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Alan in the U.S.?

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~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

6 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Alan, according to the stars

Core essence

Alan feels the room before entering it. The core of Alan is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Alan, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Alan cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Alan needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alan creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Alan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Alan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Alan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Alan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Alan sits

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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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Alan

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

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

Alan’s birth-sky starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 82.6° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 15.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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Alan Turing at a glance

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Alan Turing's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Water Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Alan Turing's birth date, June 23, 1912, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Alan Turing's timed chart: Venus in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
The tightest major aspect in Alan Turing's timed chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
Alan Turing combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.

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.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantGemini

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

Aspects, tightest first

VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.9° orb
Alan’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonsextileMarsseparating · 1.2° orb
Alan’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.7° orb
Alan’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.6° orb
Alan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SaturntrineUranusapplying · 4.2° orb
Alan’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 6.1° orb
Alan’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.8° orb
Alan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

Cardinal4 of 10
Fixed3 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

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

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.

⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 11°07′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Alan absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 18°59′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Alan is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 14°20′ · House 9
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 23°20′ · House 10
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 LilithAquarius 1°57′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Alan at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Hygiea trine Neptune 0.7°
Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.7°
Eros opposition Mars 1.0°
Eros trine Moon 2.2°
Ceres sextile Moon 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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Alan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, 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 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.

Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
Sun semi-square Mars 0.9°
Venus biquintile Uranus 1.0°
Sun quincunx Uranus 1.4°
Mars semi-square Pluto 1.8°

Alan’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Gemini	Mercury in Cancer, house 2	Venus, Pluto	self, body, how you arrive
2	Cancer	Moon in Libra, house 5	Sun, Mercury, Neptune	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Leo	Sun in Cancer, house 2	Mars	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Virgo	Mercury in Cancer, house 2	empty	home, family, roots
5	Libra	Venus in Gemini, house 1	Moon	creativity, romance, play
6	Scorpio	Pluto in Gemini, house 1	empty	work, habits, health
7	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 7	Jupiter	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 12	empty	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Aquarius	Uranus in Aquarius, house 9	Uranus	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Pisces	Neptune in Cancer, house 2	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Aries	Mars in Leo, house 3	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Taurus	Venus in Gemini, house 1	Saturn	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Alan’s cards

Every card is computed from June 23, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

丑

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7251, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alan Turing at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Turing’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alan Turing?: Alan Turing was a Cancer: born June 23, 1912, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
What was Alan Turing's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1912 birth.
What time was Alan Turing born?: 02:15 local time in Maida Vale, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What was Alan Turing's rising sign?: Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 02:15 birth time in Maida Vale, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What was Alan Turing's Life Path number?: Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1912 birth date.
What was Alan Turing's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 11°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1912 birth time.
Where was Alan Turing's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 1°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alan Turing's dominant planet?: Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Alan, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Alan wants to be loved

How Alan creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

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Alan Turing at a glance

Cancer Sun

Water Rat

Life Path 6

What stands out in Alan’s chart

Alan’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Alan’s dominant planets

Configurations in Alan’s chart

Minor aspects

Alan’s houses

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