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Alex Haley

Alex Haley (born August 11, 1921, Ithaca, United States; died 1992), was an American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist. Haley is best remembered for Roots: The Saga of an American Family and Queen: The Story of an American Family. Haley's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Spingarn Medal and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

Alex Haley’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Alex Haley’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Alex in the U.S.?

#232

US rank in 2025

~295,991

Americans share it since 1880

1993

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1921, Alex came 149th among boys and 3,673rd among girls, carried by 1,022 American boys and 8 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alex’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) and closes on X (6).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alex’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Alex apart

Chris Hemsworth (1983) and Hulk Hogan (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Alex, according to the stars

Core essence

Alex is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alex is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Alex wants to be loved

Alex 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. Alex gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Alex creates

How Alex makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Alex creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Alex is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alex 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Alex fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Alex's birth date. Working below.

Where Alex sits

Six lines

Alex’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alex

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alex

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alex

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alex

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Alex

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alex

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alex Haley

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ithaca on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alex’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Ithaca that night

Computed for 42.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Ithaca at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.8° above the horizon in Draco.

Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 65% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Alex's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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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Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Alex Haley's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Alex Haley's birth date, August 11, 1921, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Alex’s chart

Alex’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.6° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 4.2° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4.7° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 5.1° orbSun in Leo · 18°25′☉18°Moon in Sagittarius · 1°03′☽1°Mercury in Leo · 6°11′☿6°Venus in Cancer · 6°45′♀6°Mars in Leo · 5°18′♂5°Jupiter in Virgo · 20°28′♃20°Saturn in Virgo · 23°07′♄23°Uranus in Pisces · 8°26′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Leo · 13°41′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 9°24′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.2° to 1.5° orb

    Alex’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranustrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb

    Alex’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.1° to 2.3° orb

    Alex’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 5.2° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.7° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 4.4° to 16.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 6.4° to 18.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Alex’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°43′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 26°05′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 28°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°39′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.2°

Alex’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☽ Moon2 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto

Configurations in Alex’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.3°

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Alex’s cards

Computed from August 11, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296069 (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 University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alex Haley at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alex Haley.

Quick answers about Alex Haley’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alex Haley?
Alex Haley was a Leo: born August 11, 1921, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Alex Haley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 11, 1921 birth.
What was Alex Haley's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Alex Haley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Alex Haley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alex Haley's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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