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Alex Tizon

Alex Tizon (born October 30, 1959, Manila, Philippines; died 2017), was an American writer, journalist, professor. Tizon is best remembered for My Family's Slave. Tizon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.

Alex Tizon’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Alex Tizon’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Crimson · Gold

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 does not do surface. The core of Alex is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Alex is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Alex cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Alex needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Alex creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Alex is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Alex is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Alex leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alex runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Alex's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Intimate circleWide network
Alex

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alex

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Alex

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alex

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Alex

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alex

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alex Tizon

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

Alex’s birth-night reference starMarkabblue-white · PegasusMarkab, in Pegasus. A blue-white star, 81.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Markab →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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.

Alex Tizon at a glance

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Alex Tizon's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Alex Tizon was born on October 30, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Alex Tizon's birth date, October 30, 1959, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Alex’s chart

Alex’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Alex Tizon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.7° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°59′☉5°Moon in Libra · 11°30′☽11°Mercury in Scorpio · 28°59′☿28°Venus in Virgo · 20°01′♀20°Mars in Scorpio · 5°57′♂5°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 4°50′♃4°Saturn in Capricorn · 2°49′♄2°Uranus in Leo · 20°43′♅20°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°40′♆6°Pluto in Virgo · 5°46′♇5°

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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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

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.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Alex’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Alex’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 1.2° orb

    Alex’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.0° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Alex’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

    Alex’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.4° orb

    Alex’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

    Alex’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.3° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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 ℞Aquarius 22°41′

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Alex making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Alex is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 7°18′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Alex attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 22°44′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Alex at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Alex that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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 Pluto 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.9°

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. 1. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Alex is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.7°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alex Tizon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Alex’s cards

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Wheel of Fortune

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The Evergreen Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Alex Tizon, 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 Q4717893, 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 Andy Abeyta; licensor: University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alex Tizon at Wikipedia.

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 Alex Tizon.

Quick answers about Alex Tizon’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alex Tizon?
Alex Tizon was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1959, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
What was Alex Tizon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1959 birth.
What time was Alex Tizon 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 Tizon's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 30, 1959 birth date.
What was Alex Tizon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 30, 1959 birth date.
Where was Alex Tizon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alex Tizon's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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