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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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 1880
1999
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Alek’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Alek Wek in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Alek Wek, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Alek’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.7° orb
Alek’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
Alek’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 4.0° orb
Alek’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssquareNeptune5.0° to 5.8° orb
Alek’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° to 5.5° orb
Alek’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
Alek’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alek building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 29°25′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Alek caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°26′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Alek is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Alek is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Alek is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Alek’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Alek is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Alek’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alek Wek, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Alek
Hayes MacArthur was born on April 16, 1977 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in South Sudan
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- Khaman MaluachSouth Sudanese basketball player (born 2006)
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Born in Snake years
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- Javier MascheranoArgentine association football player and manager
- Carlos MenemArgentinean president between 1989 and 1999
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Alek’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alek Wek, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Alek’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q239508, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 The Heart Truth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alek Wek at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alek Wek.
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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- 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.
- What time was Alek Wek born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- 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 from the April 16, 1977 birth date.
- What is Alek Wek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1977 birth date.
- 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.
