Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (born April 2, 1914, Marylebone, United Kingdom; died 2000), was a British actor. Guinness's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Shakespeare Prize and Society of London Theatre Special Award.
Alec Guinness’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Alec
Alec Guinness’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Alec in the U.S.?
#977
US rank in 2025
~55,489
Americans share it since 1880
1995
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1914, Alec came 770th, carried by 47 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alec’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alec’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Alec apart
Alec Guinness took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama in 1957, at 43.
The working life starts in 1934, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as liver cancer; the grave is at Petersfield.
Alec Guinness was born to Agnes Cuff and Andrew Geddes, married Merula Salaman and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Alec Guinness: English bisexual male actors, British copywriters and Bisexual Christians.
Marvin Gaye (1939) and Alberto Fernández (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1957), European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996) and Academy Award for Best Actor (1958)
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1934
- Cause of death
- liver cancer
- Buried at
- Petersfield
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 82
What the chart says
Alec, according to the stars
Core essence
Alec leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Alec is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Alec wants to be loved
Alec wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Alec creates
How Alec makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Alec creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Alec is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Alec is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alec 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 Alec's birth date. Working below.
Where Alec sits
Six lines
Alec’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Alec Guinness
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marylebone 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 Marylebone that night
Computed for 51.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Marylebone was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 81.9° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Marylebone at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon up and 40% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Marylebone, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Paddington
Wikidata records Paddington as Alec Guinness's home, against Marylebone as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Midhurst, Chichester in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alec Guinness: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alec's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Alec Guinness's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 2, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Alec Guinness was born on April 2, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Alec Guinness's birth date, April 2, 1914, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Alec’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alec Guinness' date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Alec Guinness combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Alec’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.6° to 1.6° orb
Alec’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.6° to 1.9° orb
Alec’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.0° to 1.7° orb
Alec’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurytrineMars1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.6° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.7° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Alec’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 16°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°13′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°38′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°25′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.9°
Alec’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Alec’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
More people like Alec
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- Peter Cushing1913
Born in United Kingdom
- Christian de DuveBelgian biochemist, cytologist
- Herbert C. BrownAmerican chemist
- Anthony DawsonBritish actor
- Peter CushingBritish actor
- Andrew HuxleyEnglish physiologist and biophysicist
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist
More charts like Alec’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Amy SedarisAmerican comedian and actor
- Kirsten StormsAmerican actress
- Hillary ScottAmerican singer and songwriter
Born in Tiger years
- Wendell CoreyAmerican actor
- Sebastian KochGerman actor
- William RedfieldAmerican actor
Also born on April 2
- Marvin Gaye1939
- Alberto Fernández1959
- Michael Fassbender1977
- Pedro Pascal1975
- Mollie O'Callaghan2004
- Bobby Bones1980
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Brian BranchAmerican football player (born 2001)
- David NjokuAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Gary Jennings Jr.American football player (born 1997)
Other Aries Tiger charts
- Victoria GunvalsonAmerican reality television personality and businesswoman
- Jenna JamesonAmerican pornographic actress
- Star JonesAmerican lawyer, television personality, fashion designer, author and women's and diversity advocate (born 1962)
- Stephanie PrattAmerican television personality
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Justin OlamPapua New Guinean rugby league footballer
- Ed SheeranEnglish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Gal GadotIsraeli actress, and model; Miss Israel 2004
- Deepika PadukoneIndian actress
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Yohji YamamotoJapanese fashion designer
- Andy BiersackAmerican singer
- Ronnie RadkeAmerican musician
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Alec’s cards
Computed from April 2, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alec’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q103894 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alec Guinness at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alec Guinness.
Quick answers about Alec Guinness’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alec Guinness?
- Alec Guinness was an Aries: born April 2, 1914, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Alec Guinness's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 2, 1914 birth.
- How tall was Alec Guinness?
- Alec Guinness was 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Alec Guinness's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alec Guinness's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alec Guinness's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alec Guinness's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
