Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Amenábar (born March 31, 1972, Santiago, Chile), aged 54, is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. Amenábar's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film, European Film Award for Best Cinematographer and Time Machine Award.
Alejandro Amenábar’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Alejandro
Alejandro Amenábar’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Alejandro in the U.S.?
#195
US rank in 2025
~147,470
Americans share it since 1885
2001
its peak year
In 1972, 702 American boys were registered Alejandro — 276th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alejandro’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alejandro’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Alejandro apart
The European Film Award for Best Cinematographer came in 2004, when Alejandro Amenábar was 32.
Alejandro Amenábar was taught at Complutense University of Madrid.
Alejandro Amenábar was 20 when the work began in 1992.
On Wikipedia the categories read Chilean film score composers, Male film score composers and Best Director Goya Award winners.
Karla Sofía Gascón 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.
- Educated at
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film (2005), European Film Award for Best Cinematographer (2004) and Time Machine Award (2006)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Film and European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
- Working from
- 1992
- Citizenship
- Spain and Chile
- Languages
- Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
What the chart says
Alejandro, according to the stars
Core essence
Alejandro 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 Alejandro 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 Alejandro wants to be loved
Alejandro wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Alejandro is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Alejandro creates
How Alejandro makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Alejandro creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Alejandro 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 8 is the powerhouse. Alejandro is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Alejandro scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Alejandro's birth date. Working below.
Where Alejandro sits
Six lines
Alejandro’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 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 Alejandro Amenábar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santiago 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 Santiago that night
Computed for 33.44°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Suhail stood nearest the zenith over Santiago at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.9° above the horizon in Vela.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
Santiago sits at 33.4°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Sun 30° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Alejandro's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Water 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Alejandro Amenábar's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 31, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Alejandro Amenábar was born on March 31, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Alejandro Amenábar's birth date, March 31, 1972, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Alejandro’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alejandro Amenábar's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Alejandro Amenábar combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Alejandro’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.2° orb
Alejandro’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Alejandro’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune1.8° to 2.5° orb
Alejandro’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrinePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Alejandro’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 9°29′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 13°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.4°
Alejandro’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Alejandro’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
Born the same day as Alejandro
Karla Sofía Gascón was born on March 31, 1972 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 33.4°S, Santiago keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Alejandro’s cards
Computed from March 31, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alejandro’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q274070 (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 Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alejandro Amenábar 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 Alejandro Amenábar.
Quick answers about Alejandro Amenábar’s chart
- How old is Alejandro Amenábar?
- Alejandro Amenábar is 54 years old, born March 31, 1972 in Santiago, Chile.
- What zodiac sign is Alejandro Amenábar?
- Alejandro Amenábar is an Aries: born March 31, 1972, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Alejandro Amenábar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 31, 1972 birth.
- What is Alejandro Amenábar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alejandro Amenábar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alejandro Amenábar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alejandro Amenábar's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
