Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born April 16, 1977, Wau, South Sudan), aged 49, is a South Sudanese-British model and designer. Wek's honours include BBC 100 Women.
Alek Wek’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Alek
Alek Wek’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Alek in the U.S.?
#2604
US rank in 2025
~4,649
Americans share it since 1916
1999
its peak year
Alek is in US records from 1916, but 1977 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1999.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alek’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alek’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alek apart
The BBC 100 Women came in 2015, when Alek Wek was 38.
Alek Wek was taught at London College of Fashion.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudanese emigrants to the United Kingdom and Dinka women.
Hayes MacArthur 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
- London College of Fashion
- Awards
- BBC 100 Women (2015)
- Citizenship
- Sweden and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Alek, according to the stars
Core essence
Alek 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 Alek 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 Alek wants to be loved
Alek 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 Alek creates
How Alek makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alek creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Alek is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Alek 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Alek slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Alek's birth date. Working below.
Where Alek sits
Six lines
Alek’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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alek Wek
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wau 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 Wau that night
Computed for 7.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Regulus stood nearest the zenith over Wau at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Leo.
Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Wau sits at 7.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Alek's chart is
Chart pattern score
78 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Mercury · Grand trine · 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Alek Wek's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Alek Wek was born on April 16, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Alek Wek's birth date, April 16, 1977, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Alek’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alek Wek's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Alek Wek combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Alek’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Alek’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.5° to 0.9° orb
Alek’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.6° to 2.0° orb
Alek’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.0° to 5.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Alek’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 29°25′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°26′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.8°
- Eros square Pluto 1.0°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.4°
Alek’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Alek’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.1°
Born the same day as Alek
Hayes MacArthur was born on April 16, 1977 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: 98 catalog stars stood above Wau, at 7.7°N that night, with Regulus nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alek
Other actors
- Sarah Michelle Gellar1977
- John Cena1977
- Rob McElhenney1977
- Tom Welling1977
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Samantha Morton1977
Born in South Sudan
- Luol DengSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
- Adut AkechSudanese-Australian model
- Khaman MaluachSouth Sudanese basketball player (born 2006)
More charts like Alek’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Gian Maria VolonteItalian actor
- Sterling HaydenAmerican actor
- Billy Dee WilliamsAmerican actor (born 1937)
Born in Snake years
- Sandy Yawnactress
- Thierry HenryFrench association football player and manager (born 1977)
- Michael OliseFrench footballer (born 2001)
Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Blake Fielder-Civil1982
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- ZicoBrazilian association football player and manager
- Javier MascheranoArgentine association football player and manager
- Carlos MenemArgentinean president between 1989 and 1999
Other Aries Snake charts
- Christian BraunAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- RayJ DennisAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Karlo MatkovićBosnian basketball player
- Tyler KolekAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Other Tidal Strategists
- Kate GosselinAmerican television personality
- Nick HoganAmerican actor (born 1990)
- Brie BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Nikki BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Richard DawkinsEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
- Paulo CoelhoBrazilian lyricist and novelist
- Cate BlanchettAustralian actor and producer
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Alek’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alek’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239508 (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 The Heart Truth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alek Wek at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
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Quick answers about Alek Wek’s chart
- How old is Alek Wek?
- Alek Wek is 49 years old, born April 16, 1977 in Wau, South Sudan.
- What zodiac sign is Alek Wek?
- Alek Wek is an Aries: born April 16, 1977, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Alek Wek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1977 birth.
- How tall is Alek Wek?
- Alek Wek is 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Alek Wek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alek Wek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alek Wek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alek Wek's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
