Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming (born August 6, 1881, Lochfield, United Kingdom, 02:00; died 1955), was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate. Fleming served as Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Fleming's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Alexander Fleming’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Alexander Fleming’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
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
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What the chart says
Alexander, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexander is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alexander 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Alexander is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Alexander needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Alexander wants to be loved
Alexander wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Alexander like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Alexander creates
How Alexander makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Alexander creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexander is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alexander 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Alexander scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Alexander's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Alexander Fleming at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Alexander Fleming's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. 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 Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Alexander Fleming's birth date, August 6, 1881, 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 Alexander’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Alexander Fleming's timed chart: Mercury in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Alexander Fleming's timed chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Alexander Fleming combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Alexander’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 0.1° orb
Alexander’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 0.9° orb
Alexander’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunsquareSaturnseparating · 1.6° orb
Alexander’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.2° orb
Alexander’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb
Alexander’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.3° orb
Alexander’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.4° orb
Alexander’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.6° orb
Alexander’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.5° orb
Alexander’s growth and depths act as one.
SuntrineMoonseparating · 6.8° orb
Alexander’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 7.2° orb
Alexander’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 7.6° orb
Alexander’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Alexander’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°27′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alexander building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 10°07′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Alexander is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCancer 12°52′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Alexander is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 24°50′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Alexander is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 5°32′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Alexander is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 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°).
Alexander’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Alexander 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 Alexander’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.8°
Alexander’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 6 | Mercury | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 2 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Taurus, house 11 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 11 | Moon | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 11 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 3 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Taurus, house 11 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 12 | Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | Venus, Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Alexander’s cards
Every card is computed from August 6, 1881, 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 Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37064, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexander Fleming at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 Alexander Fleming’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alexander Fleming?
- Alexander Fleming was a Leo: born August 6, 1881, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- What was Alexander Fleming's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1881 birth.
- What time was Alexander Fleming born?
- 02:00 local time in Lochfield, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Alexander Fleming's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 02:00 birth time in Lochfield, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Alexander Fleming's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 6, 1881 birth date.
- What was Alexander Fleming's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 6, 1881 birth time.
- Where was Alexander Fleming's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 5°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alexander Fleming's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
