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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

In 1959, 1,164 American boys and 12 girls were registered Alex — 234th among boys and 3,621st among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alex’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on A (1) and closes on X (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.

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

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 record

What sets Alex apart

Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) 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 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. 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 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 →

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

The sky over Manila that night

Computed for 14.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Markab stood nearest the zenith over Manila at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Pegasus.

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

Manila sits at 14.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.

How unusual Alex's chart is

Chart pattern score

74 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart

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 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.

What Scorpio means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 1 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 4° to 18° Libra depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.8° to 1.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.3° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°41′

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Alex’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Alex’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Alex’s cards

Computed from October 30, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4717893 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Alex Tizon's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Alex Tizon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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