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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Alex’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Alex sits
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ithaca on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, 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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Alex Haley's birth date, August 11, 1921, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Alex’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alex Haley's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Alex Haley combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Alex’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alex Haley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
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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.
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
Alex’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb
Alex’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 5.2° orb
Alex’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°43′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Alex may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 26°05′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Alex is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 28°43′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Alex is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°39′ (moves 0.38° 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. Alex is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Alex at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.2°
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°).
Alex’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. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon2 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Alex is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Alex’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.
Stellium 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alex Haley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alex’s cards
Every card is computed from August 11, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alex Haley, 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
Alex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296069, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- 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 time was Alex Haley 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.
- What was Alex Haley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 11, 1921 birth date.
- What was Alex Haley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 11, 1921 birth date.
- 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.
