Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947, Beverly Hills, United States), aged 79, is an American actor and comedian. Brooks is best known for Finding Nemo and The Simpsons.
Albert Brooks’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Albert
Albert Brooks’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Albert in the U.S.?
#614
US rank in 2025
~494,420
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 6,462 American boys and 21 girls named Albert in 1947: 55th among boys and 2,146th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Albert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Albert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Albert apart
The record Albert Brooks is measured by: Finding Nemo and The Simpsons.
Study took Albert Brooks to Beverly Hills High School and Carnegie Mellon University.
Albert Brooks was 22 when the work began in 1969.
The family line: born to Thelma Leeds and Harry Einstein and married Kimberly Brooks.
Wikipedia files Albert Brooks under Einstein family (show business), American satirical film directors and ABC Records artists.
Don Henley shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Finding Nemo and The Simpsons
- Educated at
- Beverly Hills High School and Carnegie Mellon University
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1969
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Albert, according to the stars
Core essence
Albert feels the room before entering it. The core of Albert 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 Albert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Albert wants to be loved
Albert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Albert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Albert creates
How Albert makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Albert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Albert is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Albert 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Albert scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Albert's birth date. Working below.
Where Albert sits
Six lines
Albert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Albert Brooks
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Beverly Hills 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 Beverly Hills that night
Computed for 34.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Beverly Hills at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 15.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
Beverly Hills sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 32% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Beverly Hills, United States
- Lives in
- Santa Monica
Wikidata records Santa Monica as Albert Brooks's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Albert Brooks: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Albert's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Albert Brooks's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Albert Brooks's birth date, July 22, 1947, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Albert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Albert Brooks' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Albert Brooks combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Albert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Albert’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Albert’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.2° to 0.5° orb
Albert’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.8° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Albert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°50′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°57′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°54′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.9°
Albert’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Albert’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
Born the same day as Albert
Don Henley was born on July 22, 1947 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 Beverly Hills, at 34.1°N, nothing below −55.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Albert
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Born in United States
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on July 22
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- John Leguizamo1964
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Nadeen AyoubPalestinian beauty pageant titleholder
- Muna el-KurdPalestinian journalist
- Ben RadcliffeEnglish actor
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Courtney RobertsonAmerican model
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- Tom SandovalAmerican television personality
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Colin FarrellIrish actor
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- Ashley TisdaleAmerican actress and singer
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Kristen WiigAmerican actress and comedian
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Albert’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Albert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q356303 (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 Melissa cybermelli@aol.com from New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Albert Brooks at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Albert Brooks.
Quick answers about Albert Brooks’s chart
- How old is Albert Brooks?
- Albert Brooks is 79 years old, born July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Albert Brooks?
- Albert Brooks is a Cancer: born July 22, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Albert Brooks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1947 birth.
- What is Albert Brooks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Albert Brooks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Albert Brooks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Albert Brooks's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
