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Alex Highsmith

Alex Highsmith (born August 7, 1997, Wilmington, United States), aged 29, is an American football player (born 1997). Highsmith has played for Pittsburgh Steelers and Charlotte 49ers football.

Alex Highsmith’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Alex Highsmith’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal 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

Alex ranked 55th among boys and 674th among girls in 1997, the year of this birth, with 6,855 American boys and 322 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alex’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on A (1) and closes on X (6). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.

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 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · 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 1997, 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 Alex apart

The classrooms behind this chart: Eugene Ashley High School and University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Wikipedia's editors put Alex Highsmith under Players of American football from Wilmington, North Carolina, Charlotte 49ers football players and Pittsburgh Steelers players.

The same date carries Kyler Murray. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Eugene Ashley High School and University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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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 attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Alex and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Alex creates

How Alex makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Alex 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: Alex is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Alex fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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 Highsmith

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

Alex’s birth-night reference starKornephorosyellow · HerculesKornephoros, in Hercules. A yellow star, 76.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kornephoros →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 29.1° 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 Wilmington that night

Computed for 34.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wilmington was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 76.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wilmington on any night.

Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon up and 19% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Alex's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Venus · Five planets retrograde · No Water planets

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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Alex Highsmith at a glance

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Alex Highsmith's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Alex Highsmith was born on August 7, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Alex Highsmith's birth date, August 7, 1997, 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 26° to 8° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.1° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 4° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Leo · 15°11′☉15°Moon in Libra · 2°19′☽2°Mercury in Virgo · 12°05′☿12°Venus in Virgo · 18°09′♀18°Mars in Libra · 25°56′♂25°Jupiter in Aquarius · 17°15′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Aries · 20°20′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Aquarius · 6°21′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Capricorn · 28°07′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Sagittarius · 2°50′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb

    Alex’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.9° to 2.5° orb

    Alex’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Alex’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.7° to 5.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.3° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 27°29′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 11°22′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 6°15′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°32′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron square Neptune 0.6°
  • Ceres opposition Mercury 0.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.5°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.6°

Alex’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Alex’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusTwo 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 2.2°

Born the same day as Alex

Kyler Murray was born on August 7, 1997 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.2°N, the sky above Wilmington stops at −55.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Alex’s cards

Computed from August 7, 1997. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q88557151 (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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alex Highsmith at Wikipedia.

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

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

Quick answers about Alex Highsmith’s chart

How old is Alex Highsmith?
Alex Highsmith is 29 years old, born August 7, 1997 in Wilmington, United States.
What zodiac sign is Alex Highsmith?
Alex Highsmith is a Leo: born August 7, 1997, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Alex Highsmith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1997 birth.
How tall is Alex Highsmith?
Alex Highsmith is 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Alex Highsmith's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Alex Highsmith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alex Highsmith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alex Highsmith's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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