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Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen (born March 16, 1969, Lewisham, United Kingdom; died 2010), was a British fashion designer. McQueen is best remembered for No. 13 Climax, Dante and Alexander McQueen. McQueen's honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire and The Fashion Awards.

Alexander McQueen’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Alexander McQueen’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Alexander in the U.S.?

#30

US rank in 2025

~740,668

Americans share it since 1880

1993

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,012 American boys and 22 girls named Alexander in 1969: 150th among boys and 2,845th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alexander’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

The record

What sets Alexander apart

The record Alexander McQueen is measured by: Dante, No. 13 Climax and Alexander McQueen.

Study took Alexander McQueen to Rokeby School and Central Saint Martins.

Alexander McQueen was 23 when the work began in 1992.

The record gives hanging to death as the cause, and Sabanalarga as the resting place.

Mark Carney (1965) and Alexandra Daddario (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Dante, No. 13 Climax and Alexander McQueen
Educated at
Rokeby School and Central Saint Martins
Awards
The Fashion Awards (1996) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003)
Working from
1992
Cause of death
hanging to death
Buried at
Sabanalarga
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Alexander, according to the stars

Core essence

Alexander feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Alexander is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Alexander wants to be loved

Alexander wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Alexander creates

How Alexander makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alexander creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Alexander 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Alexander is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Alexander has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Alexander's birth date. Working below.

Where Alexander sits

Six lines

Alexander’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alexander

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alexander

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Alexander

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alexander

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Alexander

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alexander

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alexander McQueen

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

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

The sky over Lewisham that night

Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Lewisham at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lewisham at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Lewisham, United Kingdom

The death is recorded at Mayfair, City of Westminster in 2010.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alexander McQueen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Alexander's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Alexander McQueen at a glance

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Alexander McQueen's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Alexander McQueen was born on March 16, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Alexander McQueen's birth date, March 16, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Alexander’s chart

Alexander’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.1° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.4° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Pisces · 25°41′☉25°Moon in Pisces · 3°27′☽3°Mercury in Pisces · 5°53′☿5°Venus in Aries · 26°45′♀26°Mars in Sagittarius · 7°57′♂7°Jupiter in Libra · 1°52′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Aries · 24°27′♄24°Uranus in Libra · 2°15′ · retrograde♅℞2°Neptune in Scorpio · 28°38′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Virgo · 23°44′ · retrograde♇℞23°

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Alexander’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.4° to 2.5° orb

    Alexander’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.5° to 2.7° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus6.0° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 2°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 26°34′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 18°36′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 22°13′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.2°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.0°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.1°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 2.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.8°

Alexander’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Alexander’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.9°

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Alexander’s cards

Computed from March 16, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207939 (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 Ed Kavishe / fashionwirepress.com, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alexander McQueen at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexander McQueen.

Quick answers about Alexander McQueen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alexander McQueen?
Alexander McQueen was a Pisces: born March 16, 1969, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Alexander McQueen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1969 birth.
What was Alexander McQueen's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Alexander McQueen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Alexander McQueen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alexander McQueen's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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